I have learned to look upon each little hindrance as a jest and each great one as a foreshadowing of victory.
Interpretation
Challenges can be seen as opportunities for growth and humor, especially the larger ones that hint at future success.
In this quote, Lucy Maud Montgomery emphasizes the importance of perspective when faced with obstacles. By viewing minor setbacks as humorous and major challenges as precursors to victory, one cultivates resilience and hope, allowing for personal growth and the anticipation of future successes.
In practice
During a motivational speech at a community event.
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.
The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are blindly adopted; the second wilfully preferred.
It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear; about two of them nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying; and two perhaps can be settled.
More and more I believe in the fact that you have two hands and two legs, and the thing is how to make good use of yourself - and that's about it.
It's pretty unhealthy to obsess over what people think about you.
...maximize the serendipity around you.
He (the Sage) does not show off, therefore he shines.
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