Showing posts with label growth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label growth. Show all posts

Tuesday, 24 February 2026

Adulthood Is a Gift

Soulmates come in all shapes and sizes.
Some are big, some are small.
Some are cats.
A lot of them are cats.
(Page 10)

Saturday, 12 July 2025

Anne is so wise! XD

Oh, Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them. You mayn’t get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them. Mrs. Lynde says, ‘Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed.’ But I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed.

Oh, Marilla, aspettare con ansia le cose è metà del loro piacere. Magari non ottieni quelle cose; ma niente può impedirti di provare il piacere di aspettarle. La signora Lynde dice: “Beati coloro che non si aspettano nulla, perché non saranno delusi”. Ma io penso che sarebbe peggio non aspettarsi nulla che essere delusi.

Anne
(Pagina 90)

Wednesday, 19 February 2025

The Princess and Curdie

There is this difference between the growth of some human beings and that of others: in the one case it is a continuous dying, in the other a continuous resurrection.

C’è questa differenza tra la crescita di alcuni esseri umani e quella di altri: in un caso è una continua morte, nell’altro una continua resurrezione.

(Pagina 13)

The Hobbit

In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry...

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