Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes

Last night there seemed to be a chance. Anything was possible last night. That was the trouble with last nights. They were always followed by this mornings.

I believed, up to last week, that Adam was somehow coming back. But I wouldn't trade that optimism for anything, because the other option is no fun.

When I was younger I thought I'd meet the man of my dreams, get married and have a child, but it all went higgledy-piggledy. Never say never, though.

If things look badly to-day they may look better tomorrow.

To be hopeful means to be uncertain about the future, to be tender toward possibilities, to be dedicated to change all the way down to the bottom of your heart.

I would never say anything's over forever. How could you possibly know how you feel? How could you shut the door on anything?

The way you remember the past depends upon your hope for the future. And if what you see in your future has no hope, it has no potential, then you view the past that brought you to here as not very good.

One thing we have lost, that we had in the past, is a sense of progress, that things are getting better. There is a sense of volatility, but not of progress.

Tomorrow you might get a phone call about something wonderful and you might get a phone call about something terrible.

Furthermore I will just have to see what the future will bring me. But a change of food whets the appetite.

And I can't wait to see where the road leads from here.

Everybody's after a new morning. What do we have to run up and salute tomorrow?

Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.

We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.

No matter what era we're in, we need hope.

Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.

Particularly at the moment, it's an incredibly optimistic thing to bring children into the world.

It's so weird, not knowing what your life is going to be. I'm being optimistic. And when 'Leverage' comes to an end, I have lots of ideas for other things. You can't really sit and wait for things to come to you.

I'll give it a shot. But I don't know that a year from now I'm going to be here. Nobody does.

It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.

To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open.

And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.

Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates.

The unknown used to be really scary, just that fear of, 'What's next? What if I'm not prepared?' I just don't feel that way anymore. I feel like the best is yet to come.

What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.