... there is something about everything that you can be glad about, if you keep hunting long enough to find it.

- Eleanor Porter

'Oh, yes,' nodded Pollyanna emphatically. 'He said he felt better right away, that first day he thought to count 'em. He said if God took the trouble…

- Eleanor Porter

The influence of a beautiful, helpful, hopeful character is contagious. ... People radiate what is in their minds and in their hearts.

- Eleanor Porter

... if God took the trouble to tell us eight hundred times to be glad and rejoice, He must want us to do it—SOME.

- Eleanor Porter

The sun was slowly setting in the west, casting golden beams of light into the somber old room.

- Eleanor Porter

It isn't given to us to see ends. We can only attend to the beginnings and make them right.

- Eleanor Porter

Be glad. Be good. Be brave.

- Eleanor Porter

My relationship with "Pollyanna" is a very personal one, because Pollyanna got me through my childhood.

- Eleanor Porter

Just breathing isn't living!

- Eleanor Porter