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.
James M. BarrieAnd if he forgets them so quickly," Wendy argued, "how can we expect that he will go on remembering us?
James M. BarrieIt is frightfully difficult to know much about the fairies, and almost the only thing for certain is that there are fairies wherever there are children.
James M. BarrieIn dinner talk it is perhaps allowable to fling any faggot rather than let the fire go out.
James M. BarrieOh the gladness of their gladness when they're glad, And the sadness of their sadness when they're sad; But the gladness of their gladness, and the sadness of their sadness, Are as nothing to their badness when they're bad
James M. BarrieOh, you mysterious girls, when you are fifty-two we shall find you out; you must come into the open then. If the mouth has fallen sourly yours the blame: all the meanness your youth concealed have been gathering in your face. But the pretty thoughts and sweet ways and dear, forgotten kindnesses linger there also, to bloom in your twilight like evening primroses.
James M. Barrie