She asked me what made me do such a thing. That is an awkward question because I often can't tell what makes me do things. Sometimes I do them just to find out what I feel like doing them. And sometimes I do them because I want to have some exciting things to tell my grandchildren.
Interpretation
The quote reflects on the motivations behind our actions, suggesting that sometimes they're driven by curiosity or a desire for memorable experiences.
In this quote, Lucy Maud Montgomery explores the complexity of human motivation, acknowledging that our choices often stem from a mix of curiosity and a longing for experience. She suggests that we may engage in activities not solely for specific outcomes but also to discover our feelings, and to create stories that could be shared with future generations. This highlights the value of both spontaneity and the importance of life's experiences in shaping our narratives.
In practice
During a motivational speech about finding passion in life.
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.
There is no neutral ground in the universe. Every square inch, every split second is claimed by God, and counterclaimed by Satan.
I believe we are put here to improve civilisation.
Racism? But isn't it only a form of misanthropy?
Remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fellowship of race and class and gender in a democratic society.
Being critical of the nation is a far cry from being unpatriotic or anti-American. In fact, most social criticism . . . is based on a love of America's ideals and a concern we're not living up to them.
To provide employment for the poor, and support for the indigent, is among the primary, and, at the same time, not least difficult cares of the public authority.
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