“You must pay the penalty of growing-up, Paul. You must leave fairyland behind you.”
More from Lucy Maud Montgomery on Life
“It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.”
“We don't know where we're going, but isn't is fun to go?”
“Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.”
“…but youth yearned to youth.”
“He was so lonely that he laughed at himself.”
“Most young men are such bores. They haven't lived long enough to learn that they are not the wonders to the world they are to their mothers.”
“Well, it all comes to this, there's no use trying to live in other people's opinions. The only thing to do is to live in our own.”
“Oh", she thought, "how horrible it is that people have to grow up-and marry-and change!”
“The body grows slowly and steadily but the soul grows by leaps and bounds. It may come to its full stature in an hour.”
Others on Life
Jonathan Safran Foer
22 quotes“One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second”
Mitch Albom
18 quotes“Behind all your stories is always your mother's story. Because hers is where yours begin.”
Rainer Maria Rilke
16 quotes“I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world.”
Henry Miller
15 quotes“We create our fate every day ... most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.”
Lord Byron
14 quotes“The great art of life is sensation to feel that we exist even in pain.”
Cormac McCarthy
14 quotes“People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn...”
Virginia Woolf
14 quotes“No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”
Joseph Campbell
14 quotes“I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive...”
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
13 quotes“Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice.”
Søren Kierkegaard
13 quotes“Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.”
Margaret Atwood
13 quotes“Surviving Is the only warWe can afford”
Sarah Dessen
13 quotes“All those clean, fresh starts had made me forget what it was like, until now, to be messy and honest and out of control....”