Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes

The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.

Oh! joy for he who has escaped from this world of perfumes and color! For beyond these colors and these perfumes, these are other colors in the heart and the soul.

The outer kingdom is not our real home. The inner kingdom is our everything.

Glorious indeed is the world of God around us, but more glorious the world of God within us.

All this knowledge of the objective world is of no value in comparison to having a little glimpse of the inner sky and its beauty - its sunrises and sunsets, its days and nights, its blue sky and its stars. The outer then looks only a pale reflection of the inner. The inner becomes more real and the outer becomes just a shadow.

You don’t have to be perfect to be pretty.

Don't go outside your house to see flowers. My friend, don't bother with that excursion. Inside your body there are flowers. One flower has a thousand petals. That will do for a place to sit. Sitting there you will have a glimpse of beauty inside the body and out of it, before gardens and after gardens.

I found a sad little fairy Beneath the shade of a paper tree. I know a sad little fairy Who was blown away by the wind one night.

So let's not get frightened when the children read fantasy. It's the compost for a healthy mind. It stimulate s the inquisitive nodes, and there is some evidence that a rich internal fantasy life is as good and necessary for a child as healthy soil is for a plant, for much the same reasons.

Other kingdoms are still present on earth along with the kingdom of the heavens. That is the human condition.

The mind of man is a thousand times more beautiful than the earth on which he dwells.

And there's that one particular harbor Sheltered from the wind Where the children play on the shore each day And all are safe within...

No matter how long you stand there examining yourself naked before a mirror, you'll never see reflected what's inside.

The only value of this world lay in its power - at certain times - to suggest another world.

When you have the intuition that there is something which is there, but out of the reach of your physical world, art and religion are the only means to get to it.

To read in bed is to draw around us invisible, noiseless curtains. Then at last we are in a room of our own and are ready to burrow back, back to that private life of the imagination we all led as a child and to whose secret satisfactions so many of us have mislaid the key.

Music springs from and is replenished by a hidden source which lies outside the world or reality. Music ever spoke to me of a mysterious world beyond, which moved my heart deeply and eloquently intimated its transcendental nature.

You are one of the noblest of God's creations. His intent is that your life be gloriously beautiful regardless of your circumstances. As you are grateful and obedient, you can become all that God intends you to be.

Beauty? To me it is a word without sense because I do not know where its meaning comes from nor where it leads to.

I think that I get to represent different types of beauty that [are] not just my own.

Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life... Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world.

Children have two visions, the inner and the outer. Of the two the inner vision is brighter.

As a child, she’d always had what she imagined were fascinating thoughts, but didn’t ever say them. Once, as a little girl, at recess, she thought that if she ran very fast at a pole and then caught it and swung quickly around, part of her would keep going, and she would become two girls.

Dreams are shores where the ocean of spirit meets the land of matter. Dreams are beaches where the yet-to-be, the once-were, the will-never-be may walk awhile with the still-are.