25 quotes
Scottish writer and playwright (1860–1937)
“If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.”
"Courage is the lovely virtue-the rib of Himself that God sent down to His children."
on Courage
"God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December."
on Faith
"If you have it [love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have."
on Love
"I'm not young enough to know everything."
on Wisdom
"Pan, who and what art thou?" he cried huskily."I'm youth, I'm joy," Peter answered at a venture, "I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg."
on Life
"Courage is the thing. All goes if courage"
"Ambition: it is the last infirmity of noble minds."
on Ambition
"The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it."
on Inspirational
"Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else."
on Work
"Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves."
on Happiness
"The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings."
"We are all failures- at least the best of us are."
on Truth
"The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does."
"Life is a long lesson in humility."
"To die will be an awfully big adventure."
on Death
"Life is like a cup of coffee: The more avidly you drink of it, the sooner you reach the dregs."
"Let no one who loves be called altogether unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow."
"It may have been quixotic, but it was magnificent."
"If you knew how great is a mother's love, you would have no fear."
"All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust."
