Oh, it's delightful to have ambitions. I'm so glad I have such a lot. And there never seems to be any end to them-- that's the best of it. Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting.
Interpretation
Ambitions drive us to seek new goals and make life engaging.
This quote reflects on the nature of ambition, suggesting that it is a delightful and enriching aspect of life. Lucy Maud Montgomery expresses gratitude for her numerous ambitions, highlighting how each achievement leads to new aspirations, which keeps life dynamic and interesting.
In practice
In a motivational speech about personal growth and pursuing dreams.
A broken heart in real life isn't half as dreadful as it is in books. It's a good deal like a bad tooth, though you won't think THAT a very romantic simile. It takes spells of aching and gives you a sleepless night now and then, but between times it lets you enjoy life and dreams and echoes and peanut candy as if there were nothing the matter with it.
A house isn't a home without the ineffable contentment of a cat with its tail folded about its feet. A cat gives mystery, charm, suggestion.
Gilbert darling, don't let's ever be afraid of things. It's such dreadful slavery. Let's be daring and adventurous and expectant. Let's dance to meet life and all it can bring to us, even if it brings scads of trouble and typhoid and twins!" (Anne to Gilbert)
Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.
I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.
She had dreamed some brilliant dreams during the past winter and now they lay in the dust around her. In her present mood of self-disgust, she could not immediately begin dreaming again. And she discovered that, while solitude with dreams is glorious, solitude without them has few charms.
If you're not embarrassed when you ship your first version, you waited too long.
The surest way to lose at any endeavor is to quit.
If you give up at the first sign of struggle, you're really not ready to be successful.
I tell people, 'I was born in a little house at the dead end of a dirt road that had no name and no number, and you can go anywhere from nowhere.'
I just wish people would realize that anything's possible if you try; dreams are made possible if you try.
Surround yourself with people who add the fuel of advice and encouragement to your fire.
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