But was anything in life, Anne asked herself wearily, like one's imagination of it?
Oh, it's delightful to have ambitions. I'm so glad I have such a lot. And there never seems to be any end to them-- that's the best of it. Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting.
My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.
All life lessons are not learned at college,'she thought. Life teaches them everywhere.
There isn't any such thing as an ordinary life. (92)
I know that in everybody's life must come days of depression and discouragement when all things in life seem to lose savour. The sunniest day has its clouds;but one must not forget the sun is there all the time.
It was three o'clock in the morning – the wisest and most accursed hour of the clock. But sometimes it sets us free.
Life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it.
the little things in life often make more trouble than the big things.
It is never quite safe to think we have done with life. When we imagine we have finished our story fate has a trick of turning the page and showing us yet another chapter.
…it's so dreadful to have nothing to love — life is so empty — and there's nothing worse than emptiness…
Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts.