"There is something about everything that you can be glad about, if you keep hunting long enough to find it..." - Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter (1912)
My ancient Pollyanna book, given to me when my mother and I visited Bethune, Saskatchewan in 1969, and the old homestead. The "Glad book". It's been read so many times it is falling apart. I used to eat peanut butter sandwiches and turn the pages with peanut butter fingers, under the covers at night, with a flashlight. It's still one of my favourite books. Even with its ripped pages and peanut butter stains...a well loved book.
"Just breathing isn't living!"
"If God took the trouble to tell us eight hundred times to be glad and rejoice, He must want us to do it....SOME."
"When you look for the bad, expecting it, you will get it. When you know you will find the good-you will get that!" "You see, when you're hunting for the glad things, you sort of forget the other kind...""the Rev Paul Ford climbed the hill and entered the Pendelton Woods, hoping that the hushed beauty of God's out0of-doors would still the tumult that His children of men had wrought...""That's why I told you that the sun shines, all that. I knew you'd be glad it did if you only stopped to think of it, and you didn't look a bit as if you WERE thinking about it!""Look, way off there, with those trees and the houses and that lovely church spire, and the river shining just like silver. There doesn't anybody need any pictures with that to look at. Oh, I'm so glad now she let me have this room!"
"Pollyanna sewed, practised piano, read aloud, and studied cooking in the kitchen, it is ture, but she did not give to any of these things quite so much time as had first been planned. She had more time just to live, as she called it!"" 'I wish they were up here...all those ladies who talked so loud!' sighed Pollyanna to herself, raising her eyes to the patches of vivid blue between the sunlit green of the treetops...""I'll tell all my Toms I KNOW they'll be glad to fill that woodbox1 I'll give them work to do, and I'll make them so full of the very joy of doing it that they won't have time to look at their neighbours' woodboxes!""Almost every afternoon found Polyana begging for an errand to run, so that she might be off for a walk in one direction or another....""In his imagination he was far away in a little western town with a missionary minister who was poor sick, worried and almost alone in the world....but who was pouring over the Bible to find how many times his Lord and Master had told him to 'rejoice and be glad'...""People radiate what is in their minds and in their hearts If a person feels kindly and obliging, others will feel that way too, before long...""the 'GLAD GAME'? asked the man. "Oh yes, she told me of that!""What men and women need is encouragement. Their natural resisting powers should be strengthened, weakened...""The influence of a beautiful, helpful, hopeful character is contagious. and may revolutionize a whole town....People!"Photographs 2025
"Pollyanna" quotes
Eleanor H. Porter (1868-1920) Author of the "Pollyanna series"
