Eleanor H. Porter - Pollyanna (1913)

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You lose such a lot of time just sleeping... when you might just be living!... It seems such a pity we can't live nights too.

Eleanor H. Porter
And most generally there is something about everything to be glad about, if you keep hunting long enough to find it.

Eleanor H. Porter
Oh, but Aunt Polly, Aunt Polly, you haven't left me any time at all just to- to live.

Eleanor H. Porter
People radiate what is in their minds and in their hearts.

Eleanor H. Porter
The influence of a beautiful, helpful, hopeful character is contagious, and may revolutionize a whole town.

Eleanor H. Porter
I should think you could be gladder on Monday mornin' than any other day in the week, because 'twould be a whole week before you'd have another one!

Eleanor H. Porter
The game was to just find something about everything to be glad about — no matter what 'twas... You see, when you're hunting for the glad things, you sort of forget the other kind.

Eleanor H. Porter
Pollyanna... will you stop using that everlasting word "glad"! It's "glad" — "glad" — "glad" from morning till night until I think I shall grow wild!

Eleanor H. Porter
Oh, of course I'd be breathing all the time I was doing those things, Aunt Polly, but I wouldn't be living. You breathe all the time you're asleep, but you aren't living. I mean living — doing the things you want to do... Just breathing isn't living!

Eleanor H. Porter
Mrs. Snow had lived forty years, and for fifteen of those years she had been too busy wishing things were different to find much time to enjoy things as they were.

Eleanor H. Porter
Of course things you don't know about are always nicer'n things you do, same as the pertater on 'tother side of the plate is always the biggest.

Eleanor H. Porter
It's funny how dogs and cats know the insides of folks better than other folks do, isn't it?

Eleanor H. Porter
It'll be just lovely for you to play — it'll be so hard. And there's so much more fun when it is hard!

Eleanor H. Porter
What men and women need is encouragement. Their natural resisting powers should be strengthened, not weakened.... Instead of always harping on a man's faults, tell him of his virtues. Try to pull him out of his rut of bad habits.

Eleanor H. Porter
If God took the trouble to tell us eight hundred times to be glad and rejoice, He must want us to do it—SOME.

Eleanor H. Porter
I long ago discovered that you can't TELL about Pollyanna. The minute you try to, she sounds priggish and preachy, and--impossible. Yet you and I know she is anything but that.

Eleanor H. Porter