"Ilse and I hunted all over the old orchard for a four-leaved clover and couldn't find one. Then I found one in a clump of clover by the dairy steps when I was straining the milk and never thinking of clovers. Cousin Jimmy says that is the way luck always comes, and it is no use to look for it."
- L. M. Montgomery
Hope
"When twilight drops her curtain down and pins it with a star, remember that you have a friend though she may wander far."
- L. M. Montgomery
Relationships
"Then you have to remember to be thankful; but in May one simply can’t help being thankful that they are alive, if for nothing else."
- L. M. Montgomery
Gratitude
"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."
- Joshua J. Marine
Adversity
"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."
- Epicurus
Adversity
"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Adversity
"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."
- Jesse Owens
Adversity
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
- Frederick Douglass
Adversity