Lucy Maud
Lucy Maud
writing people may
You'll never write anything that really satisfies you though it may satisfy other people.
thinking expectations sides
Whenever you looked forward to anything pleasant you were sure to be more or less disappointed . . . perhaps that is true. But there is a good side to it too. The bad things don't always come up to your expectations either . . . they nearly always turn out ever so much better than you think.
believe giving return
I shall give life here my best, and I believe it will give its best to me in return.
food cake want
Cakes have such a terrible habit of turning out bad just when you especially want them to be good.
beauty beautiful hate
I love pretty things; and I hate to look in the glass and see something that isn't pretty. It makes me feel so sorrowful—just as I feel when I look at any ugly thing. I pity it because it isn't beautiful.
children anger deceitful
A child that has a quick temper, just blaze up and cool down, ain't never likely to be sly or deceitful.
book blessing would-be
Blessings be the inventor of the alphabet, pen and printing press! Life would be -- to me in all events -- a terrible thing without books.
bitterness dramatic
Dramatic things always have a bitterness for some one.
love-is people needs
... we always love best the people who need us.
dog cat perspective
No use in taking a cat's opinion of a dog.
past ghost happened
The ghosts of things that never happened are worse than the ghosts of things that did.
love-is nostalgia process
Outgrowing things we love is never a pleasant process.
summer sunset glowing
Nasturtiums, who colored you, you wonderful, glowing things? You must have been fashioned out of summer sunsets.
fear thinking stronger
Fear is a confession of weakness. What you fear is stronger than you, or you think it is, else you wouldn't be afraid of it.