James M. Barrie Quotes - Page 2

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• Those who aim low usually hit their targets.

  James M. Barrie

  Target, Lows, Aim

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• Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

  James M. Barrie

  Inspirational, Motivational, Hipster

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• If growing up means it would be beneath my dignity to climb a tree, I'll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up! Not me!

  James M. Barrie

  Change, Growing Up, Mean

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• When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.

  James M. Barrie

  Birthday, Baby, Laughter

  Peter Pan act 1 (1928)

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• He who distributes the milk of human kindness cannot help but spill a little on himself.

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  Kindness, Littles, Milk

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• The useless men are those who never change with the years.

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  Motivational, Change, Years

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• We are all failures - at least the best of us are.

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  Inspirational, Moving On, Success

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• What is genius? It is the power to be a boy again at will.

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  Boys, Genius

  James M. Barrie (2013). “Tommy And Grizel (Annotated Edition)”, p.166, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.

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  Love, Happiness, Broken Heart

  James M. Barrie (2013). “The Little Minister (Illustrated Edition)”, p.215, Jazzybee Verlag

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• So come with me, where dreams are born, and time is never planned. Just think of happy things, and your heart will fly on wings, forever, in Never Never Land!

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  Life, Happiness, Dream

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• Men's second childhood begins when a woman gets a hold of him.

  James M. Barrie

  Men, Childhood

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• Our life is a book to which we add daily, until suddenly we are finished, and then the manuscript is burned.

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  Book, Add, Life Is

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• To die will be an awfully big adventure.

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  Death, Travel, Adventure

  Peter Pan act 3 (1928) See Frohman 1

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• Life is a long lesson in humility.

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  Life, Humility, Long

  James M. Barrie (2013). “The Little Minister (Illustrated Edition)”, p.31, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.

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  Letting Go, Goodbye, Farewell

  "Peter Pan; or, the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up". Book by James M. Barrie, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1911.

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• The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.

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  Inspirational, Faith, Airplane

  "The Little White Bird". Book by James M. Barrie, 1902.

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• All of this has happened before, and it will all happen again.

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  Neverland, Happened, Happens

  "Peter Pan". www.imdb.com. February 5, 1953.

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• You just think lovely wonderful thoughts," Peter explained, "and they lift you up in the air.

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  Thinking, Air, Lovely

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.27, 谷月社

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• We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.

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  Loss, Reality, Understanding

  "Margaret Ogilvy". Book by James M. Barrie, 1897.

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• The gates of heaven are so easily found when we are little, and they are always standing open to let children wander in.

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  Children, Heaven, Littles

  James M. Barrie (2013). “Sentimental Tommy (Annotated Edition)”, p.43, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.

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  Inspirational, Eggs, Broken

  Peter Pan act 5 (1928)

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• I'll teach you how to jump on the wind's back, and then away we go.

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  Wind, Away We Go, Teach

  James M. Barrie (2013). “Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)”, p.38, Jazzybee Verlag

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• There are many different kinds of bravery. There's the bravery of thinking of others before one's self. Now, your father has never brandished a sword nor fired a pistol, thank heavens. But he has made many sacrifices for his family, and put away many dreams... He put them in a drawer. And sometimes, late at night, we take them out and admire them. But it gets harder and harder to close the drawer... He does. And that is why he is brave.

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  Dream, Father, Sacrifice

  "Fictional character: Mrs. Darling". "Peter Pan", www.imdb.com. December 9, 2003.

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• Why can't you fly now, mother?" "Because I am grown up, dearest. When people grow up they forget the way." "Why do they forget the way?" "Because they are no longer gay and innocent and heartless. It is only the gay and innocent and heartless who can fly.

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  Mother, Growing Up, Gay

  James M. Barrie (2013). “Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)”, p.152, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Make your feet your friend.

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  Feet, Hiking, Trekking

  James M. Barrie (2013). “Sentimental Tommy (Annotated Edition)”, p.94, Jazzybee Verlag

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