The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
J.M. BarrieTag: happiness
Odd things happen to all of us on our way through life without our noticing for a time that they have happened.
J.M. BarrieNext year he did not come for her. She waited in a new frock because the old one simply would not meet, but he never came.
"Perhaps he is ill," Michael said.
"You know he is never ill."
Michael came close to her and whispered, with a shiver, "Perhaps there is no such person, Wendy!" and then Wendy would have cried if Michael had not been crying.
They have long lost count of the days, but always if they want to do anything special they say this is saturday night, and then they do it.
J.M. BarrieAll children, except one, grow up. They soon know that they will grow up, and the way Wendy knew was this. One day when she was two years old she was playing in a garden, and she plucked another flower and ran with it to her mother. I suppose she must have looked rather delightful, for Mrs Darling put her hand to her heart and cried, ‘Oh, why can’t you remain like this for ever!’ This was all that passed between them on the subject, but henceforth Wendy knew that she must grow up. You always know after you are two. Two is the beginning of the end.
J.M. BarrieTag: children aging two-years-old
What is afraid?' asked Peter longingly. He thought it must be some splendid thing. 'I do wish you would teach me how to be afraid, Maimie,' he said.
J.M. BarrieSo 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!
J.M. BarrieTag: peter-pan
I am the best there ever was!
J.M. BarrieTag: peter-pan
If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.
J.M. BarrieTag: music
He was never more sinister than when he was most polite...
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