The Secret Garden is a novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett first published in book form in 1911, after serialization in The American Magazine (November 1910 – August 1911). Profoundly inspirational Secret Garden quotes will fire up your brain and encourage you to look at life differently while making you laugh.
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If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden
She frowned because she remembered that her father and mother had never talked to her about anything in particular. Certainly they had never told her things.
The Secret Garden was what Mary called it when she was thinking of it. She liked the name, and she liked still more the feeling that when its beautiful old walls shut her in no one knew where she was. It seemed almost like being shut out of the world in some fairy place
I never knowed it by that name but what does the name matter? I warrant they call it a different name i’ France an’ a different one i’ Germany. The same thing as set th’ seeds swelling’ an’ th’ sun shining’ made thee a well lad an’ it’s the’ Good Thing. It isn’t like us poor fools think it matters if we are called out of our names. The Big Good Thing doesn’t stop to worry, bless thee. It goes on making’ worlds by th’ million worlds like us. Never thee stop believin’ in the’ Big Good Thing’ and knowing’ th’ world’s full of it and’ call it what the’ likes. Tha’ wert singin’ to it when I come into the garden.
Mary had never possessed an animal pet of her own and had always thought she should like one. So she began to feel a slight interest in Dickon, and as she had never before been interested in anyone but herself, it was the dawning of a healthy sentiment.
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.
Two worst things as can happen to a child is never to have his own way or always to have it.
The sun shone down for nearly a week on the secret garden. The Secret Garden was what Mary called it when she was thinking of it. She liked the name, and she liked still more the feeling that when its beautiful old walls shut her in no one knew where she was. It seemed almost like being shut out of the world in some fairy place.
It was the sweetest, most mysterious looking place any one could imagine. The high walls which shut it in were covered with the leafless stems of climbing roses which were so thick that they were matted together
Colin flushed triumphantly. He had made himself believe that he was going to get well, which was really more than half the battle, if he had been aware of it. And the thought which stimulated him more than any other was this imagining what his father would look like when he saw that he had a son who was as straight and strong as other fathers’ sons.
She walked away, slowly thinking. She had begun to like the garden just as she had begun to like the robin and Dickon and Martha’s mother. She was beginning to like Martha, too. That seemed a good many people to like when you were not used to liking.
When new beautiful thoughts began to push out the old hideous ones, life began to come back to him, his blood ran healthily through his veins and strength poured into him.
And they both began to laugh over nothings as children will when they are happy together
Like the entomologist in search of colorful butterflies, my attention has chased in the gardens of the gray matter cells with delicate and elegant shapes, the mysterious butterflies of the soul, whose beating of wings may one day reveal to us the secrets of the mind. Santiago Ramon y Cajal
Hang in there. It is astonishing how short a time it can take for very wonderful things to happen.
The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measure Tibetan Proverbs
When I was going to try to stand that first time Mary kept saying to herself as fast as she could, ‘You can do it! You can do it!’ and I did. I had to try myself at the same time, of course, but her Magic helped me.
But there are a thousand and one doors into this garden and we all have to find our own. Jean Vanier
Where you tend to a rose my lad, a thistle cannot grow.
So plant your own gardens and decorate your soul instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers Jorge Luis Borges
She made herself stronger by fighting with the wind.
It is an old dream: To travel on the back of a benevolent sea beast down to some secret underwater garden. Stephen Harrigan
That afternoon the whole world seemed to devote itself to being perfect and radiantly beautiful and kind to one boy.
Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high. William Goldman
Of course there must be lots of Magic in the world, he said wisely one day, but people don’t know what it is like or how to make it. Perhaps the beginning is just to say nice things are going to happen until you make them happen. I am going to try and experiment.
You’ll never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine John C. Maxwell
In secret places we can think and imagine, we can feel angry or sad in peace. There is something to be said for just being, without worrying about offending anyone.
Gardens should be like lovely, well shaped girls: all curves, secret corners, unexpected deviations, seductive surprises and then still more curves H. E. Bates
One of the new things people began to find out in the last century was that thoughts just mere thoughts are as powerful as electric batteries as good for one as sunlight is, or as bad for one as poison. To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fever germ get into your body. If you let it stay there after it has got in you may never get over it as long as you live.
In our not yet acknowledged secret garden lie the seeds of some of our best not yet written stories Sol Stein
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.
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. Frances Hodgson Burnett
But the calm had brought a sort of courage and hope with it. Instead of giving way to thoughts of the worst, he actually found he was trying to believe in better things.
You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine John C. Maxwell
Much more surprising things can happen to any one 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.
Two things cannot be in one place. Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow. Frances Hodgson Burnett
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.
Two worst things as can happen to a child is never to have his own way – or always to have it. Frances Hodgson Burnett
