105 Quotes by Jean Webster

"One does not miss what one has never had."

"Eleven pages – this is a letter! Have courage. I’m going to stop."

"Thank 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 sense of humor."

"I believe absolutely in my own free will and my own power to accomplish – and that is the belief that moves mountains."

"But now – I shall have a Great Big Worry all the rest of my life. Whenever you are away from me I shall be thinking of all the automobiles that can run over you, or the sign-boards that can fall on your head, or the dreadful, squirmy germs that you may be swallowing."

"It isn’t the big pleasures that count the most; it’s making a great deal out of the little ones."

"It’s nice to look forward to, isn’t it – a life of work and play and little daily adventures side by side with somebody you love?"

"And if I ever have any children of my own, no matter how unhappy I may be, I am not going to let them have any cares until they grow up."

"They are so accustomed to the feeling that their senses are deadened to it;."

"She was by nature a sunny soul."