Welcome, Anne. I thought you'd come today. You belong to the afternoon so it brought you. Things that belong together are sure to come together. What a lot of trouble that would save some people if they only knew it. But they don't...and so they waste beautiful energy moving heaven and earth to bring things together that don't belong.
Interpretation
The quote suggests that things that naturally belong together will come together without force.
In this quote, Lucy Maud Montgomery reflects on the idea that people often struggle to create connections or bring together elements that do not naturally fit. She emphasizes the importance of recognizing that some things or people are meant to be together, and that trying to force relationships or situations that lack inherent compatibility leads to unnecessary stress and wasted energy. This wisdom encourages individuals to trust the natural unfolding of relationships and circumstances instead of exerting effort in vain.
In practice
Using this quote during a motivational speech about the importance of letting go of unproductive relationships.
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.
It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.
Part of the oncoming demise (of New York during its terrible fiscal crisis) is that none of us can simply believe it. We were always the best and the strongest of cities, and our people were vital to the teeth. Knock them down eight times and they would get up with that look in the eye which suggests the fight has barely begun.
The humblest is the peer of the most powerful.
The boundaries of democracy have to be widened so as to include economic equality also. This is the great revolution through which we are all passing.
Who can hope to be safe? who sufficiently cautious?_x000D_ _x000D_ Guard himself as he may, every moment's an ambush.
Demands for solidarity can quickly turn into demands for groupthink, making it difficult to express nuance.
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