never write a line you'd be ashamed to read at your own funeral.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of living authentically and with integrity.
Lucy Maud Montgomery's quote suggests that individuals should always strive to be honest and true to themselves in their writings and actions. The idea of reading something at one's own funeral calls for reflection on how we wish to be remembered, urging people to create work and lead lives that they can be proud of, even in the most solemn moments.
In practice
This quote can be used during a writing workshop to encourage participants to write sincerely.
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.
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)
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.
Remember: if you can cease all restless activity, your integral nature will appear.
It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
He is a good man who can receive a gift well.
Between here and heaven, every minute that the Christian lives will be a minute of grace.
You have to feed your soul and spirit, but you also have to be a professional and remember the business that you're in. Everything is not your passion project.
When a captive lion steps out of his cage, he comes into a wider world than the lion who has known only the wilds. While he was in captivity, there were only two worlds for him - the world of the cage, and the world outside the cage. Now he is free. He roars. He attacks people. He eats them. Yet he is not satisfied, for there is no third world that is neither the world of the cage nor the world outside the cage.
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