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Inspiring Quotes for Tuesday, May 20, 2025

Mary Landers All Messages By This Member #14519 Happiness It’s been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will. ~ Lucy Maud Montgomery Lucy Maud Montgomery’s 1908 novel “Anne of Green Gables” follows the life of a young girl who has ample reason to be pessimistic, yet she continually finds ways not to be. After growing up in an orphanage, Anne is adopted by a pair of siblings who had intended to adopt a young boy to help out on their farm. In the book’s fifth chapter, one of the siblings is driving Anne back to the orphanage when the young girl muses on her decision to focus on the drive’s pleasantries, such as blossoming wild roses, instead of her gloomy destination. Anne’s persistent optimism is a helpful reminder that we have more control over how our reality affects us than we may think. Though it takes some concerted effort, we have the choice to focus more on what lifts our spirits than what causes distress. Mary Live long and prosper

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