Quotes About Fulfillment

We make our own lives wherever we are, after all... They are broad or narrow according to what we put into them, not what we get out.

The happiest countries, like the happiest women, have no history.

We miss so much out of life if we do not love. The more we love the richer life is.

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

But there is a destiny which shapes the ends of young misses who are born with the itch for writing tingling in their baby fingertips, and in the fullness of time this destiny gave to Emily the desire of her heart—gave

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

If I had my way I'd shut everything out of your life but happiness and pleasure, Anne, said Gilbert in the tone that meant danger ahead. Then

But what is the use of being an independent old maid if you can't be silly when you want to, and when it doesn't hurt anybody? A person must have some compensations.

The little things of life, sweet and excellent in their place, must not be the things lived for; the highest must be sought and followed;

It is hard to understand why work should be called a curse—until one remembers what bitterness forced or uncongenial labour is. But the work for which we are fitted—which we feel we are sent into the world to do—what a blessing it is and what fullness of joy it holds.

It wouldn't do to have all our dreams fulfilled. We would be as good as dead if we had nothing left to dream about. - Anne Shirley

Holmes speaks of grief "staining backward" through the pages of life; but Valancy found her happiness had stained backward likewise and flooded with rose-colour her whole previous drab existence. She found it hard to believe that she had ever been lonely and unhappy and afraid.

it's delightful when your imaginatios come true, isn't it?

There are--plenty--without you. That isn't the point, Rilla-my-Rilla. I'm going for my own sake--to save my soul alive. It will shrink to something small and mean and lifeless if I don't go. That would be worse than blindness or mutilation or any of the things I've feared.

Well, I should like to see you go to college, Anne, but if you never do, don't grow discontented about it. We make our own lives wherever we are, after all... college can only help us do it more easily.

How terrible it would be to be doing something you didn't like every day

They had a sort of talent for happiness.

Più una cosa è difficile da ottenere, maggiore è la soddisfazione che provi quando ce la fai.

Lo que quiero conseguir del curso en la universidad es algún conocimiento sobre la mejor manera de vivir la vida y sacarle el máximo y mejor provecho. Quiero aprender para entender y ayudar a otra gente y a mí misma. (...) Ese es el fin que debe tener la universidad, en lugar de producir un montón de licenciados y graduados, tan atragantados de libros y vanidad que no les queda sitio para otra cosa.

The things you wanted so much when you were a child don't seem half so wonderful to you when you get them.

I begin to feel that life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it.

We make our own lives wherever we are, after all[...]They are broad or narrow according to what we put into them, not what we get out. Life is rich and full here...everywhere...if we can only learn how to open our whole hearts to its richness and fullness.

I shall always end my stories happily.

What hurt her was that she had never had a chance to be anything but an old maid. No man had ever desired her.