"I'm so thankful for friendship. It beautifies life so much."Friendship
"It's splendid to have ambitions and it's splendid to work for them, but it's also rather nice to have friends."Success
"There's such a lot of different Annes in me. I sometimes think that is why I'm such a troublesome person."
"I'm afraid of wasting my life."Motivation
"We've got to believe in tomorrow no matter what happened today."Hope
"I don't want to be different from other people if being different means being queerer."Courage
"That is one advantage to being poor—there are so many more things that might happen."Imagination
"I'm going to have a perfectly splendid life."Dreams
"The point is that I'm not blaming you. I only want you to understand how I feel."
"I don't want to think of anything but that it's splendid to be alive."Happiness
"It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will."
"Marilla, did you ever feel a terrible gulf between you and everybody else and couldn't bridge it no matter how much you longed to?"Solitude
"I've always thought it was something splendid to be misunderstood."
"Do you know, I don't think it's any use to ask God to help us if we don't do our best too."Faith
"I have a dreadful temper. I know I have. How is it I haven't gotten into a real terrible row with you before this?"
"Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive—it's such an interesting world."Knowledge
"I'm going to devote myself to literature."
"I wonder if we ought to be happier if we were prettier."Beauty
"Nothing could be quite so bad as it seems beforehand."Perseverance
"I've learned to hold my tongue and I'm trying to hold my temper."Patience
"I feel as if I'm just waking up from a long sleep."Change
"There's such a lot to do and such a lot to think about and such a lot to be glad about."Gratitude
"I'm terribly ambitious, you know."Success
"I hate to begin a new term's lessons."Education
"When you are fifteen what does it matter what you wear?"
"Isn't it ever so much easier to be a genial friend than a foe?"Kindness
"I wanted to impress you and I was sure you wouldn't take much notice of me if I was just ordinary."
"I'll try to be as quiet as a mouse."
"I have such a splendid memory for forgetting."Humor
"I do hope I'm going to like it here."Hope