Quotes About Positivity

One can always find something lovely to look at or listen to,' said Anne.

But oughtn't we to be prepared for the best too? It's just as likely to happen as the worst.

Thank goodness air and salvation are still free...and so is laughter.

Life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it." ? L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

Have you ever noticed that when people say it is their duty to tell you a certain thing you may prepare for something disagreeable? Why is it that they never seem to think it a duty to tell you the pleasant things they hear about you?

Anybody is liable to rheumatism in her legs, Anne. It's only old people who should have rheumatism in their souls, though. Thanks goodness, I never have. When you get rheumatism in your soul you might as well go and pick out your coffin.

There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining more.

Life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it.

If I had my way I'd shut everything out of your life but happiness and pleasure, Anne," said Gilbert

Life is rich and full here... everywhere... if we can only learn how to open our whole hearts to its richness and fullness.

Influence other people for good.

Marilla, isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?

The only fault he found with her was that she did not sing at her work. "Folks should always sing at their work," he insisted. "Sounds cheerful-like." "Not always," retorted Valancy. "Fancy a butcher singing at his work. Or an undertaker.

You've all been so sure that life is good that I've never been able to disbelieve it. Never will be able to.

It is not vanity to know your own good points. It would just be stupidity if you didn't

Thank God, I can keep the shadows of my life out of my work. I would not wish to darken any other life - I want instead to be a messenger of optimism and sunshine.

I'd like to add some beauty to life," said Anne dreamily. "I don't exactly want to make people KNOW more... though I know that IS the noblest ambition... but I'd love to make them have a pleasanter time because of me... to have some little joy or happy thought would never have existed if I hadn't been born.

Mrs. Lynde was complaining the other day that it wasn't much of a world. She said whenever you looked forward to anything pleasant you were sure to be more or less disappointed . . . perhaps that is true. But there is a good side to it too. The bad things don't always come up to your expectations either . . . they nearly always turn out ever so much better than you think.

Mrs Allan says that whenever we think of anything that is a trial to use we should also think of something nice that we can set over against it. If you are slightly too plump, you've got the dearest dimples; and if I have a freckled nose the shape of it is all right.

No matter what dreadful things happened at least there were still cats in the world.

There is some good in every person if you can find it. It is a teacher's duty to find and develop it.

Good-bye, and may you always see a happy face in your looking-glass!

I think," said Mrs. Frederick, "that if a person makes up her mind not to have colds she will not have colds.

Life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it