"But you have such dimples," said Anne, smiling affectionately into the pretty, vivacious face so near her own. "Lovely dimples, like little dents in cream. I have given up all hope of dimples. My dimple-dream will never come true; but so many of my dreams have that I mustn't complain. Am I all ready now?"

Self, Dream, Hope, Beauty, Acceptance

13

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"But you have such dimples," said Anne, smiling affectionately into the pretty, vivacious face so near her own. "Lovely dimples, like little dents in cream. I have given up all hope of dimples. My dimple-dream will never come true; but so many of my dreams have that I mustn't complain. Am I all ready now?"

Exlpore more Self quotes

"I won't compete with anybody. I love to compete with my own body. When God closes a door against me, I should not attempt to bang on it. And if God gives me a key to open a door, I should not misuse that key!"

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

Self, Competition, God, Key

"You're your best friend and worst enemy."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Self, Friend, Enemy, Mind

"You are not what you think, but you are the reflection of what you think."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Self, Reflection, Identity, Existence

"When you are looking at a person, you are not seeing him; you are seeing yourself through his reflective mirror."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Self, Reflection, Mirror, Perception

"There are only two things to understand in this world. First is, one's own True Self, and the other is, our faults from the past [life]. Won't these faults have to be broken?"

Dada Bhagwan, Indian Spiritual Leader

Self, Truth, Wisdom, Past

"The 'gods' that do us the greatest harm are the gods we deny having."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

Self, Denial, Truth, Power, Regret

"I liked being a person. I wanted to keep at it."

John Green, American Author

Self, Identity, Life, Choice, Existence

"Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens to the which our wills are gardeners."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Self, Truth, Power, Wisdom

"We make our lives complicated to prove that we are very intelligent."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Self, Complication, Intelligence, Life

"Experiment your sacred self!"

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Self, Experiment, Sacred, Life

Explore more quotes by L. M. Montgomery

"Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it."

Memory

"Of course it's better to be good. I know it ism but it's sometimes so hard to believe a thing even when you know it."

Goodness

"When twilight drops her curtain down And pins it with a star Remember that you have a friend Though she may wander far."

Friendship

"You must pay the penalty of growing-up, Paul. You must leave fairyland behind you."

Growth

"When you ARE imagining you might as well imagine something worth while."

Creativity

"Words aren't made - they grow,' said Anne."

Language

"I think this story-writing business is the foolishest yet," scoffed Marilla. "You'll get a pack of nonsense into your heads and waste time that should be put to your lessons. Reading stories is bad enough but writing them is worse."

Writing

"Fancies are like shadows...you can't cage them, they're such wayward, dancing things."

Creativity

"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."

Reflection

"I suppose that's how it looks in prose. But it's very different if you look at it through poetry and I think it's nicer' Anne recovered herself and her eyes shone and her cheeks flushed 'to look at it through poetry."

Poetry