Frances Hodgson Burnett
If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.Collection: Cheer Up
Hang in there. It is astonishing how short a time it can take for very wonderful things to happen.Collection: Time
Nothing in the world is so strong as a kind heart.Collection: Strong
As long as you have a garden you have a future and as long as you have a future you are alive.Collection: Garden
Everything's a story - You are a story -I am a story.Collection: Stories
How it is that animals understand things I do not know, but it is certain that they do understand. Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it. Perhaps there is a soul hidden in everything and it can always speak, without even making a sound, to another soul.Collection: Animal
At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done--then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.Collection: Inspirational
Two worst things as can happen to a child is never to have his own way - or always to have it.Collection: Children
When a man looks at the stars, he grows calm and forgets small things. They answer his questions and show him that his earth is only one of the million worlds. Hold your soul still and look upward often, and you will understand their speech. Never forget the stars.Collection: Stars
Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it.Collection: World
If nature has made you for a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart; and though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that--warm things, kind things, sweet things--help and comfort and laughter--and sometimes gay, kind laughter is the best help of all.Collection: Sweet
Everything is made out of Magic, leaves and trees, flowers and birds, badgers and foxes and squirrels and people. So it must be all around us. In this garden-in all the places.Collection: Flower
And the secret garden bloomed and bloomed and every morning revealed new miracles.Collection: Morning
There's nothing so strong as rage, except what makes you hold it in—that's stronger. It's a good thing not to answer your enemies. I scarcely ever do.Collection: Strong
Two things cannot be in one place. Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow.Collection: Two
"It's so beautiful!" she said, a little breathless with her speed. "You never saw anything so beautiful! It has come! I thought it had come that other morning, but it was only coming. It is here now! It has come, the Spring!"Collection: Beautiful
If you fill your mind with a beautiful thought, there will be no room in it for an ugly one. - King AmorCollection: Beautiful
Is the spring coming?" he said. "What is it like?"... "It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine.Collection: Spring
I am sure there is Magic in everything, only we have not sense enough to get hold of it and make it do things for usCollection: Magic
Things happen to people by accident.Collection: People
Much more surprising things can happen to anyone who, when a disagreeable or discouraged thought comes into his mind, just has the sense to remember in time and push it out by putting in an agreeable, determinedly courageous one. Two things cannot be in one place.Collection: Two
You either build up or you tear down. You either keep in the light where you can see, or you stand in the dark and fight everything that comes near you, because you can't see and you think it's an enemy.Collection: Fighting
I am a princess. All girls are. Even if they live in tiny old attics. Even if they dress in rags, even if they aren’t pretty, or smart, or young. They’re still princesses.Collection: Girl
Perhaps you can feel if you can’t hear,” was her fancy. “Perhaps kind thoughts reach people somehow, even through windows and doors and walls. Perhaps you feel a little warm and comforted, and don’t know why, when I am standing here in the cold and hoping you will get well and happy again.Collection: Wall
There's naught as nice as th' smell o' good clean earth, except th' smell o' fresh growin' things when th' rain falls on 'em.Collection: Nice
She says it has nothing to do with what you look like, or what you have. It has only to do with what you think of and what you do.Collection: Thinking
Mistress Mary Quite ContraryCollection: Mistress
The truth is that when one is still a child-or even if one is grown up- and has been well fed, and has slept long and softly and warm; when one has gone to sleep in the midst of a fairy story, and has wakened to find it real, one cannot be unhappy or even look as if one were; and one could not, if one tried, keep a glow of joy out of one's eyes.Collection: Children
One marvel of a day he had walked so far that when he returned the moon was high and full and all the world was purple shadow and silver.Collection: Moon
I shall live forever and ever and ever ' he cried grandly. 'I shall find out thousands and thousands of things. I shall find out about people and creatures and everything that grows - like Dickon - and I shall never stop making Magic. I'm well I'm wellCollection: People
Of course there must be lots of Magic in the world, but people don't know what it is like or how to make it.Collection: Magic In The World
Whatever comes cannot alter one thing.Collection: One Thing
At that moment a very good thing was happening to her. Four good things had happened to her, in fact, since she came to Misselthwaite Manor. She had felt as if she had understood a robin and that he had understood her; she had run in the wind until her blood had grown warm; she had been healthily hungry for the first time in her life; and she had found out what it was to be sorry for someone.Collection: Running
When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. It was true too . . . she was as tyrannical and selfish a little pig as ever lived.Collection: Uncles
I am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must write not outside it or merely somewhere near it, but in the garden.Collection: Art
But I suppose there might be good in things, even if we don't see it.Collection: Might
The difficulty will be to keep her from learning too fast and too much. She is always sitting with her little nose burrowing into books. She doesn't read them, Miss Minchin; she gobbles them up as if she were a little wolf instead of a little girl. She is always starving for new books to gobble, and she wants grown-up books--great, big, fat ones--French and German as well as English--history and biography and poets, and all sorts of things. Drag her away from her books when she reads too much.Collection: Girl
It's so easy that when you begin you can't stop. You just go on and on doing it always.Collection: Goes On
The mug from the washstand was used as Becky's tea cup, and the tea was so delicious that it was not necessary to pretend that it was anything but tea.Collection: Tea
That's what I look at some people for. I like to know about them. I think them over afterward.Collection: Thinking
Children's as good as 'rithmetic to set you findin' out things.Collection: Children
Magic is in her just as it is in Dickon," said Colin. "It makes her think of ways to do things - nice things.Collection: Nice
when the day comes that I kneel by your bedside and see your eyes close, or you kneel by mine, it must be that the one who waits behind shall know the parting is not all.Collection: Eye
Their eyes met with a singular directness of gaze. Between them a spark passed which was not afterwards to be extinguished, though neither of them knew the moment of its kindling.Collection: Eye
When a man is overcome by anger, he has a poisoned fever. He loses his strength, he loses his power over himself and over others. He throws away time in which he might have gained the end he desires. The is no time for anger in the world. - The Ancient OneCollection: Men
Oh,Sara. It is like a story." "It is a story...everything is a story. You are a story-I am a story. Miss Minchin is a story.Collection: Missing
The robin flew from his swinging spray of ivy on to the top of the wall and he opened his beak and sang a loud, lovely trill, merely to show off. Nothing in the world is quite as adorably lovely as a robin when he shows off - and they are nearly always doing it.Collection: Wall
Imagine, if you can, what the rest of the evening was like. How they crouched by the fire which blazed and leaped and made much of itself in the little grate. How they removed the covers of the dishes, and found rich, hot savory soup, which was a meal in itself, and sandwiches and toast and muffins enough for both of them.Collection: Fire
death is always sudden however long one waits.Collection: Long
As she came closer to him she noticed that there was a clean fresh scent of heather and grass and leaves about him, almost as if he were made of them. She liked it very much and when she looked into his funny face with the red cheeks and round blue eyes she forgot that she had felt shy.Collection: Eye