Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
Wisdom
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Quotes by James M. Barrie
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God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.
Wisdom
Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.
Love
Life is a long lesson in humility.
Life
Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.
Hope
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.
Wisdom
Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade.
Wisdom
Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?
Life
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
Success
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.
Life
I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.
Happiness
A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.
Wisdom
The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.
Love
Do you believe in fairies? Say quick that you believe. If you believe, clap your hands!
Wisdom
We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.
Life
I am not young enough to know everything.
Wisdom
We are all of us failures, at least, the best of us are.
Wisdom
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.
Happiness
Everytime a child says 'I don't believe in fairies' there is a a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
Wisdom
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.
Success
There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.
Life
That is ever the way. 'Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.
Wisdom
To die will be an awfully big adventure.
Wisdom
Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds.
Wisdom
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