Jean Webster quotes

I 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 and understanding. (Jean Webster)
It isn't the big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones.
Jean Webster
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.
Jean Webster
This is your heart. Keep it locked until the chap turns up who has the key.
Jean Webster
The 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
I believe absolutely in my own free will and my own power to accomplish - and that is the belief that moves mountains.
Jean Webster
The 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
It's much more entertaining to live books than to write them.
Jean Webster
‎Be careful not to keep your eyes glued to detail. Stand far enough away to get a perspective of the whole.
Jean Webster
It 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
She was by nature a sunny soul. (Jean Webster)
Half 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 the language.
Jean Webster
I 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.
Jean Webster
Dear Daddy-Long-Legs, You never answered my question and it was very important. ARE YOU BALD?
Jean Webster
It 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 laugh-I really think that requires.
Jean Webster
Please be thinking about me. I'm quite lonely and I want to be thought about.
Jean Webster