My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.' That's a sentence I read in a book once, and I say it over to comfort myself whenever I'm disappointed in anything.

Oh, Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them," exclaimed Anne. "You mayn't get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them.

Oh, Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them. You mayn't get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them. Mrs Lynde says, "Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed." But I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed.

My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes." -Anne of green gables

the worst of imagining things is that the time comes when you have to stop, and that hurts.

them: the girls whose hearts were to be wrung were yet fair little maidens a-star with hopes and dreams.

For it is sure to come; and if or not it's now not just as we have pictured it, it will likely be infinitely sweeter.

Mrs. Lynde says, 'Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall for be disappointed.' But I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed.

Hope is a better friend than despair.

I am sure the grapes are sour.

We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.

A spouse who gets angry at having been betrayed is evading a basic, tragic truth: that no one can be everything to another person.