Anne Shirley

"It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will."

"I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship."

"I wonder how a person can live things down."

"My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes."

"It is a great thing to have a record and a name."

"I've learned a lot about myself and about Anne Shirley."

"I really think we're going to be great friends."

"I never can remember the things I set out to do."

"There is such a lot of world to see and read about."

"You may take the most beautiful things in the world and they will cease to be beautiful if they are made too common."

"The field of my existence has been a pretty barren old place."

"I want to be a writer."

"I think we ought to be made the very best of, and not put away on a shelf and never used."

"Isn't it romantic to have one's name mixed up in a murder case?"

"I think I should be a perfectly splendid pirate."

"I have made up my mind to be an optimist."

"That is the most important thing about living."

"I don't want to be a strictly good person."

"There's such a lot of different Annes in me."

"I believe the nicest and sweetest days are even lovelier when you've got to face them."

"We've got to have some adventures and do something remarkable."

"I hate to begin anything new because I'm sure it will end badly."

"I'm always blurting out dreadful things."

"Life is worth living if you can laugh."

"It's such a splendid thing to have ambitions."

"I think I can help you to make life 1000 times more interesting."

"I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers."

"Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think."

"It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will."

"Tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet."