69 phrases from Anne with an E that are true life lessons

We are not in the habit of locking people in dungeons.

I never understood this: if children are a burden, why do people have so many children?

Why should the girl wait for the boy? If I want to kiss, can’t I go over there and kiss the boy?

Let your ambitions and aspirations guide you.

Life is too short to be spent fostering animosity or dwelling on mistakes.

It must be hard to lose the person you love. In a split second the person is gone, and there is nothing you can do to change that and bring them back.

It’s no use crying. It was a mistake, that’s all.

My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.

Your life doesn’t have to be an exact replica of your parents’ lives.

Now I feel almost perfectly happy!

Girls can do everything boys do and more. Do you by any chance feel helpless or incapable?

It must be so terrible to lose the person you love the most!

I feel too sorry for you to be angry with me.

Real journalism must defend those who have no voice, not silence them further.

She is a rare case! I heard her talking to herself outside.

Life is worth living as long as there is laughter in it.

That’s what you need to decide: live a life with no regrets.

From experience, you can enjoy things if you firmly believe in them.

I felt we were close as soon as I saw him.

Why are the worst memories the most insistent?

Prefer silence? I can stop. If I try hard, I can stop, although it’s hard.

Big words are needed to express big ideas.

Sometimes you have to let people love you.

If you don’t forgive me, this poor orphan will be sad all her life.

Every now and then a terrible feeling would come over me, and I feared it was a dream.

Only God knows what we’re getting into!

When your eyes seek and your heart is open, this is true bravery.

I choose myself and so I will never be disappointed.

No matter what you discover from your past, good, bad or indifferent, know that you are enough, just as you are now.

I’ve thought a lot, and I’m determined to be obedient and respectful.

One fine day you won’t care what others say.

Just thank God for your blessings. And humbly ask for the things you desire.

Emotions are rarely convenient and often intolerable.

I’m sure the two of us will get along great.

I once read that a daughter is a little girl who grows up to be your friend.

It’s not what the world has for you, it’s what you bring to the world.

Sometimes life hides gifts in the darkest places.

I learned that there are much bigger concerns in the world.

There is no limit to what I can do.

I’m doing my best, but open to recommendations.

If everyone hated you and thought you wicked, but if your conscience approved of you and absolved you of guilt, you wouldn’t be friendless.

Emotions are rarely convenient and often intolerable.

When you really try, everything works out.

It’s funny how people are so quick to point out differences when there are so many ways we are similar.

The change of a new season brings possibilities, and don’t we all deserve it? A fresh start, or the feeling of one, at least.

If the rose wasn’t beautiful, no one would stop to smell it.

Bonds can be a prison.

In my experience, you can almost always enjoy things if you firmly decide to do so.

Love who you love and stay with that person.

People see what they want, regardless of the truth.

I know that when a person is tense, he doesn’t understand what he hears. As if the speaker were far away or underwater.

I can’t wait to not care what you say!

Honesty is the best policy and also very satisfying.

Am I talking too much? They always say I talk and that causes annoyance.

I’m much stronger than I look.

I’ll stop dreaming of what I can’t have.

The best part of knowing the rules is finding ways to break them.

Today I know much more than I knew before.

Desiring something different doesn’t make it happen.

I think broken things have a sad beauty. After years of history, triumphs and tragedies infused into them, they can be so much more romantic than something new that has never experienced anything.

Loyalty cannot be bought.

We will honor our emotions so that our spirits triumph. And if any man belittles us… we’ll show you where the door is!

You must decide what you want to do and be, and strive for it.

Freedom of expression is a human right!

You don’t look like much, but you’re firm!

It’s great to read sad stories and imagine yourself going through them heroically, but… it’s not easy if you’re sad, is it?

I will be the heroine of my own story.

I admit she’s a smart little kid!

There are stimulating and descriptive words like ecstatic and glorious!