Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes

I believe in facing reality. But only because I don't like turning my back on it.

I think we ought to take the world as it is and not as we would like to have it.

I guess you deal with what you get.

I sing to the realists; people who accept it like it is.

We must take the world as it is and not as we would like it to be.

We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.

We have to accept the world as it is, not as we'd have it to be.

I just don't see the point in sitting around hollering the blues over things you have no control over. It's all in God's hands.

If things happen for the good, I say that Lord Krishna wished it so, and if anything goes against me, even then I say Lord Krishna wanted it to happen that way.

What exists, exists. You cannot change that.

I'm relyin' on Almighty God, Allah, and whatever happens happens.

There is only what is and that's it. What should be is a dirty lie.

We accept the reality of the world with which we are presented.

We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

One thing I do know, and that is, that neither hope, nor fear, belief, nor denial, can change the fact. It is as it is, and it will be as it must be.

Ask for what you want, but be willing to take what God gives you. It may be better than what you asked for.

Why make yourself miserable saying things like, "Why do we have such bad luck? What has God done to us? What have we done to deserve this?" - all of which, if you understand reality and take it completely into your heart, are irrelevant and unsolvable. They are just things that nobody can know. Your situation is just an accident of life.

We embrace the hand we've been dealt, because we know the Dealer, and he never deals badly.

We are not to choose the manner in which our blessings shall be bestowed.

Better to accept the wretched truth than struggle, twisting to make a wish a reality.

It is useless, after all, to complain against inexorable reality.

Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies.

The opinion which is fated to be ultimately agreed to by all who investigate, is what we mean by the truth, and the object represented in this opinion is the real. That is the way I would explain reality.

That's what I mean by radical truth. I mean accepting reality.

We are merely instruments of the Almighty's will and therefore ignorant of what helps us forward and what acts as an impediment. We must thus rest satisfied with the knowledge only of the means and if these are pure, we can fearlessly leave the end to take care of itself.