Jean WebsterAnybody can rise to a crisis and face a crushing tragedy with courage, but to meet the petty hazards of the day with a laugh- I really think that requires spirit! ✨ Jean Web… ▶371HumorThought
Jean WebsterBe careful not to keep your eyes glued to detail. Stand far enough away to get a perspective of the whole. ✨ Jean Webster (2015). Daddy-Long-Legs, p.49, Sheba Blake Publish… ▶362Humanity
Jean WebsterDear Daddy-Long-Legs, You never answered my question and it was very important. ARE YOU BALD? ✨ Jean Webster (2016). Daddy Long-Legs and Dear Enemy: Illustrated, p.20, Jeste… ▶363Hope
Jean WebsterI have an evening dress, pink mull over silk (I'm perfectly beautiful in that), and a blue church dress, and a dinner dress of red veiling with Oriental trimming (makes me look li… ▶367Sadness
Jean WebsterShe was by nature a sunny soul ✨ Jean Webster (2015). Daddy-Long-Legs, p.5, Sheba Blake Publishing379Hope
Jean WebsterI am going to pretend that all life is just a game which I must play as skilfully and fairly as I can. If I lose, I am going to shrug my shoulders and laugh—also if I win. ✨… ▶324HumorLife
Jean WebsterIt isn't the great big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones--I've discovered the true secret of happiness, Daddy, and that is to live in … ▶271HopeTimeTruth
Jean WebsterShe never lets ideas interrupt the easy flow of her conversation. ✨ Jean Webster (2015). Daddy Long Legs, p.84, Jean Webster337Thought
Jean WebsterI ate breakfast in the kitchen by candle-light, and then drove the five miles to the station through the most glorious October colouring. The sun came up on the way, and the swamp… ▶348Reading
Jean WebsterHalf of the time I don't know what they're talking about; their jokes seem to relate to a past that everyone but me has shared. I'm a foreigner in the world and I don't understand… ▶304HumorTime
Jean WebsterIt isn't the big troubles in life that require character. Anybody can rise to a crisis and face a crushing tragedy with courage, but to meet the petty hazards of the day with a la… ▶349HumorLifeThought
Jean Webster... in spite of being happier than I ever dreamed I could be, I'm also soberer. The fear that something may happen to you rests like a shadow on my heart. Always before I could be… ▶339LifeLoveReading
Jean WebsterI'm going to enjoy every second, and I'm going to know I'm enjoying it while I'm enjoying it. Most people don't live; they just race. They are trying to reach some goal far away o… ▶3310Humanity
Jean WebsterI have a terrible wanderthirst; the very sight of a map makes me want to put on my hat and take an umbrella and start. I shall see before I die the palms and temples of the South.… ▶3310Death
Jean WebsterI went to bed last night utterly dejected; I thought I was never going to amount to anything, and that you had thrown away your money for nothing. But what do you think? I woke up… ▶276Thought
Jean WebsterHer mother was a Rutherford. The family came over in the ark, and were connected by marriage with Henry the VIII. On her father's side they date back further than Adam. On the top… ▶222Humanity
Jean WebsterI think that the most necessary quality for any person to have is imagination. It makes people able to put themselves in other people's places. It makes them kind and sympathetic … ▶266HumanityThought
Jean WebsterIt seems to me that a man who can think straight along for forty-seven years without changing a single idea ought to be kept in a cabinet as a curiosity. ✨ Jean Webster (201… ▶211Thought
Jean WebsterHe and I always think the same things are funny, and that is such a lot; it's dreadful when two people's senses of humour are antagonistic. I don't believe there's any bridging th… ▶278HumanityHumorLove
Jean WebsterThis is your heart.Keep it locked until the chap turns up who has the key. ✨ Jean Webster (2009). Just Patty, p.195, The Floating Press224Love
Jean WebsterThank heaven I don't inherit God from anybody! I am free to make mine up as I wish Him. He's kind and sympathetic and imaginative and forgiving and understanding - and He has a se… ▶248Humor
Jean WebsterGetting an education is an awfully wearing process! ✨ Jean Webster (2015). Daddy-Long-Legs, p.30, Sheba Blake Publishing2610Sadness
Jean WebsterOh, I'm developing a beautiful character! It droops a bit under cold and frost, but it does grow fast when the sun shines. That's the way with everybody. I don't agree with the th… ▶194HumanitySadness
Jean WebsterThe world is full of happiness, and plenty to go round, if you are only willing to take the kind that comes your way. ✨ Jean Webster (2016). Daddy Long-Legs and Dear Enemy: … ▶172Thought
Jean WebsterThe more I study men, the more I realize that they are nothing in the world but boys grown too big to be spankable. ✨ Jean Webster (2016). Daddy Long-Legs and Dear Enemy: Il… ▶239Truth
Jean WebsterIs it snowing where you are? All the world that I see from my tower is draped in white and the flakes are coming down as big as pop-corns. It's late afternoon - the sun is just se… ▶207Reading
Jean WebsterIt's much more entertaining to live books than to write them. ✨ Jean Webster (2016). Daddy Long-Legs and Dear Enemy: Illustrated, p.32, Jester House Publishing166Reading
Jean WebsterI believe absolutely in my own free will and my own power to accomplish - and that is the belief that moves mountains. ✨ Jean Webster (2015). Daddy-Long-Legs, p.93, Sheba Bl… ▶167Politics
Jean WebsterIt isn't the big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones. ✨ Jean Webster (2004). Daddy-Long-Legs and Dear Enemy, p.105, Penguin158Sadness
