“The key to happiness - as any good fairy godmother will tell you - is not to avoid problems, but to overcome them.”

— Janette Rallison

Source: My Unfair Godmother

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American writer 1966

Janette Rallison (1966) American writer

Source: My Fair Godmother

“Her godmother, who was a fairy, said to her, "You want to go to the ball, don't you?"”

Charles Perrault (1628–1703) French author

Tales of Mother Goose, 1727, "Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper"

“In the modern view, unbridled personal freedom is the only good to be pursued; any obstacle to it is a problem to be overcome.”

Theodore Dalrymple (1949) English doctor and writer

All Sex, All the Time http://www.city-journal.org/html/10_3_urbanities-all_sex.html (Summer 2000).
City Journal (1998 - 2008)

“Once upon a time there was a fairy godmother, but the rest of the time there was none. This story is about one of those other times.”

Diane Setterfield book The Thirteenth Tale

Source: The Thirteenth Tale

“I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.”

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States

From article "In Defense of Curiosity" appearing in The Saturday Evening Post 208 (August 24, 1935); 8-9, 64-66. As cited in What I Hope to Leave Behind, The Essential Essays of Eleanor Roosevelt Edited by Alida M. Black, p 20.
As quoted in Todays Health (October 1966)

“In fact, of all hoodoos in Wall Street I think the resolve to induce the stock market to act as a fairy godmother is the busiest and most persistent.”

Edwin Lefèvre book Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

Source: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923), Chapter XII, p. 149

“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”

Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965) French-German physician, theologian, musician and philosopher

Variant: Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

“An unfriendly fairy godmother presented him with a keen sense of humor. Nothing is more fatal in politics. --Colonel Edward M. House, adviser to President Woodrow Wilson.”

Thomas R. Marshall (1854–1925) American politician who served as the 28th Vice President of the United States

Charles M. Thomas, Thomas Riley Marshall, Hoosier Statesman (Oxford, OH:1939), p. 153.

“[I]t takes a bad woman to be a good godmother.”

Billie Holiday (1915–1959) American jazz singer and songwriter

Remark made to Rosemary Clooney, circa summer 1956, regarding Holiday's qualifications to serve as godmother to Clooney's second child, as quoted by Clooney in "Profiles: The Heart, The Head, and The Pipes" http://www.rosemaryclooney.com/_1libraryfiles/newyorker8392.html by Whitney Balliett in The New Yorker (August 3, 1992). "Just before she left, I asked her if she would like to be the godmother of my second child, Maria, who was about to be born, and she said yes, that it takes a bad woman to be a good godmother. It was the last time I saw her."

““Success Is Not The Key To Happiness, Happiness Is The Key To Success; If You Love What You Are Doing, You Will Be Successful”
— Alireza Kohany”

Alireza Kohany (1993) Musician, Actor, Entrepreneur

Source: https://www.google.com/books/edition/What_Is_E_Commerce/PkPhDwAAQBAJ

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