Then you have to remember to be thankful; but in May one simply can't help being thankful . . . that they are alive, if for nothing else. I feel exactly as Eve must have felt in the garden of Eden before the trouble began.

What a splendid day! Isn't it good just to be alive on a day like this? I pity the people who aren't born yet for missing it. They may have good days, of course, but they can never have this one.

Oh, isn't it good to be alive--like this? Wouldn't it be dreadful if one had never lived?

Gracious heavenly Father, I thank Thee for the White Way of Delight and the Lake of Shining Waters and Bonny and the Snow Queen. I'm really extremely grateful for them. And that's all the blessings I can think of just now to thank Thee for. As for the things I want, they're so numerous that it would take a great deal of time to name them all so I will only mention the two most important. Please let me stay at Green Gables; and please let me be good-looking when I grow up.

Dear old world,' she murmured, 'you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.

Holiness does not consist in doing extraordinary things. It consists in accepting, with a smile, what Jesus sends us. It consists in accepting and following the will of God.

For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile.

I wake up every morning literally with a smile on my face, grateful for another day I never thought I'd see.

When we complain about the weather, we are, in reality, murmuring against God.

The surest way to suppress our ability to understand the meaning of God and the importance of worship is to take things for granted...Indifference to the sublime wonder of living is the root of sin.

With information we are alone; in appreciation we are with all things.

You can complain because a rose has thorns, or you can rejoice Because the thorns have a rose.