James M. Barrie
God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.Collection: God
That is ever the way. 'Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.Collection: Wedding
Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.Collection: Love
His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants hall.Collection: Equality
We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.Collection: Wisdom
You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.Collection: Time
Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.Collection: Dreams
The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.Collection: Love
Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.Collection: Strength
Life is a long lesson in humility.Collection: Life
Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.
Do you believe in fairies? Say quick that you believe. If you believe, clap your hands!
Always be a little kinder than necessary.
Everytime a child says 'I don't believe in fairies' there is a a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade.
Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?
To die will be an awfully big adventure.
I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.
It's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it, you don't need to have anything else; and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have.
The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.
Every time a child says I don't believe in fairies there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
We are all of us failures - at least, the best of us are.
A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.
For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded.
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
The best place a person can die, is where they die for others.
Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds.
You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip.
Every man who is high up likes to think that he has done it all himself, and the wife smiles and lets it go at that.
Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.
It is not real work unless you would rather be doing something else.
I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.
A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting.
The most useless are those who never change through the years.
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.Collection: Inspirational
The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.Collection: Inspirational
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle. But you shall be a miracle. Every day you shall wonder at yourself, at the richness of life which has come to you by the grace of God. Not in doing what you like but in liking what you do is the secret of happiness.Collection: Life
Always try to be a litle kinder than necessary.Collection: Trying
You just think lovely wonderful thoughts," Peter explained, "and they lift you up in the air.Collection: Thinking
Those who are prepared to die are most prepared to live.Collection: Prepared
Love, it is said, is blind, but love is not blind. It is an extra eye, which shows us what is most worthy of regard. To see the best is to see most clearly, and it is the lover's privilege.Collection: Love
Would you like an adventure now, or would you like to have your tea first?Collection: Adventure
All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.Collection: Love
As soon as you can say what you think and not what some other person has thought for you, you are on the way to being a remarkable man.Collection: Men
Anything is possible if you wish hard enough.Collection: Wish
Forget not your past, for in the future it may help you growCollection: Past
Men's second childhood begins when a woman gets a hold of him.Collection: Men
The useless men are those who never change with the years.Collection: Motivational
Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.Collection: Letting Go