Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.

Some of our struggles involve making decisions, while others are a result of the decisions we have made. Some of our struggles result from choices others make that affect our lives. We cannot always control everything that happens to us in this life, but we can control how we respond. Many struggles come as problems and pressures that sometimes cause pain. Others come as temptations, trials, and tribulations.

When I left Queen's my future seemed to stretch out before me like a straight road. I thought I could see along it for many a milestone. Now there is a bend in it. I don't know what lies around the bend, but I'm going to believe that the best does.

Well, we all make mistakes, dear, so just put it behind you. We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.

Ale cóż, jak powiedziałaby pani Linde, słońce będzie nadal wstawać i zachodzić, nie oglądając się na to, czy zdam ten egzamin, czy nie.

When I don't like the name of a place or a person I always imagine a new one and always think of them so. " Anne of Green Gables