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On the way back to the orphanage after learning Green Gables was not to be her home, a heartbroken Anne Shirley declared, <\/span>\u201cI\u2019ve made up my mind to enjoy this drive. It\u2019s been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind\u00a0firmly … Oh, look, there\u2019s one little early wild rose out! Isn\u2019t it lovely? Don\u2019t you think it must be glad to be a rose?\u201d <\/span><\/i>In moments of particular hardship, I often picture Anne, well aware of her ill fate, yet determined to celebrate the beauty surrounding her.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n There\u2019s another little girl I think of too. Her name is Sara Crewe and among the pages of “<\/span>A Little Princess<\/span>,” <\/span><\/i>her optimistic spirit has touched millions of readers all\u00a0around the world. Banished and without a cent to her name, she reminded us, <\/span>\u201cSomehow, something always h<\/span><\/i>appens <\/span><\/i>just before things get to the <\/span><\/i>very <\/span><\/i>worst. It is as if<\/span><\/i>\u00a0M<\/span><\/i>agic did it. If I could only just remember that always. The worse thing <\/span><\/i>never quite <\/span><\/i>comes.\u201d<\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n The only certainty regarding unforeseen circumstance is that it is likely to meet us <\/span>throughout our lives. However, navigating these twists in the road is made easier with<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>the turn of a page \u2014 with a peek inside the stories of courageous, resilient heroines. <\/span>\u00a0When the midnight stars were at their dimmest, they sought out magic and where they did not find it, they created their own. In their own words, these are pieces of inspiration we can carry in our hearts when experiencing our own versions of Anne\u2019s carriage ride to the orphanage or Sara\u2019s nights in the attic. These are life lessons from a literary heroine.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cI am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.\u201d – Amy March, “<\/span><\/i>Little<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/em>Women”<\/em><\/span>\u00a0by Louisa May Alcott<\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n \u201cI remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of <\/span><\/i>\u00a0s<\/span><\/i>ensations and excitements, awaited those who had the courage to go forth into its expanse,<\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/i>to seek real knowledge of life amidst it\u2019s perils.\u201d – Jane Eyre, “Jane Eyre” by Charlotte Bront\u00eb<\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n \u201cIs it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have <\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/i>loved, to have thought, to have done, to have advanced true friends? It isn’t.\u201d – Juliet <\/span><\/i>\u00a0A<\/span><\/i>shton, “The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society” by Mary Ann Schaffer and Annie <\/span><\/i>\u00a0B<\/span><\/i>arrows<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n \u201cI wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be<\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/i>in my own way.\u201d – Elinor Dashwood, “Sense and Sensibility” by Jane Austen<\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n \u201cI am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones <\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/i>after all.\u201d – Laura Ingalls Wilder, “Little House on the Prairie” by Laura Ingalls Wilder<\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n \u201cI do like a road, because you can be always wondering what is at the end of it.\u201d – Sara<\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/i>Stanley, “The Story Girl” by L.M. Montgomery<\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n \u201cAnd most generally there is something about everything that you can be glad about, if you <\/span><\/i>\u00a0k<\/span><\/i>eep hunting long enough to find it.\u201d \u2013 Pollyanna, “Pollyanna” by Eleanor H. Porter<\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n \u201cThe thought came to me that perhaps it is the loving that counts, not the being loved in <\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/i>return \u2014 that perhaps true loving can never know anything but happiness.\u201d \u2013 Cassandra<\/span><\/i> M<\/span><\/i>ortmain<\/span><\/i>, “<\/span>I Capture the Castle” by Dodie Smith<\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n “Let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; let me be sad. Let <\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/i>me be cold; let me be warm. Let me be hungry…have too much to eat. Let me be ragged or<\/span><\/i> <\/i>well dressed. Let me be sincere – be deceitful. Let me be truthful; let me be a liar. Let me be<\/span><\/i>\u00a0h<\/span><\/i>onorable and let me sin. Only let me be something every blessed minute. And when I sleep,<\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/i>let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost.\u201d \u2013 Francie Nolan,<\/span><\/i> “A<\/span><\/i> Tree Grows in Brooklyn” by Betty Smith<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n On the way back to the orphanage after learning Green Gables was not to be her home, a heartbroken Anne Shirley declared, \u201cI\u2019ve made up my mind to enjoy this drive. It\u2019s been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind\u00a0firmly … Oh, look, there\u2019s one little early […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,130,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-lifes-beautiful-journey","category-quotes"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bellagracemagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bellagracemagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bellagracemagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bellagracemagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bellagracemagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bellagracemagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bellagracemagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bellagracemagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bellagracemagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bellagracemagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Life Lessons From Some of Our Favorite Literary Heroines<\/span><\/h4>\n
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