Gilbert darling, don't let's ever be afraid of things. It's such dreadful slavery. Let's be daring and adventurous and expectant. Let's dance to meet life and all it can bring to us, even if it brings scads of trouble and typhoid and twins!" (Anne to Gilbert)
Interpretation
Embrace life with courage and enthusiasm, regardless of the challenges it may bring.
This quote encourages a bold and adventurous approach to life, suggesting that we should not be shackled by fear or anxiety about what could go wrong. Instead, it invites us to greet life's uncertainties with openness and joy, ready to experience whatever comes our way, whether it be good or bad.
In practice
In a speech about overcoming challenges, one might reference this quote to inspire others to embrace risk-taking.
A broken heart in real life isn't half as dreadful as it is in books. It's a good deal like a bad tooth, though you won't think THAT a very romantic simile. It takes spells of aching and gives you a sleepless night now and then, but between times it lets you enjoy life and dreams and echoes and peanut candy as if there were nothing the matter with it.
A house isn't a home without the ineffable contentment of a cat with its tail folded about its feet. A cat gives mystery, charm, suggestion.
Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.
I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.
She had dreamed some brilliant dreams during the past winter and now they lay in the dust around her. In her present mood of self-disgust, she could not immediately begin dreaming again. And she discovered that, while solitude with dreams is glorious, solitude without them has few charms.
Why must people kneel down to pray? If I really wanted to pray I’ll tell you what I'd do. I'd go out into a great big field all alone or in the deep, deep woods and I'd look up into the sky—up—up—up—into that lovely blue sky that looks as if there was no end to its blueness. And then I'd just feel a prayer.
I think it's my adventure, my trip, my journey, and I guess my attitude is, let the chips fall where they may.
A lot of people would have loved me to keep singing... You come to a point where you have sung, more or less... your whole repertoire and you want to get down to the job of living.
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Let go of the things that make you feel dead. Life is worth living!
The worst thing in the world is to try to sleep and not to.
In order to write about life first you must live it.
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