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Frances Hodgson Burnett Quotes: 10

If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.
The Secret Garden
Whatever comes,"she said, "cannot alter one thing. If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be a princess inside. It would be easy to be a princess if I were dressed in cloth of gold, but it is a great deal more of a triumph to be one all the time when no one knows it.
A Little Princess
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.
A Little Princess
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.
The Secret Garden
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.
A Little Princess
Hang in there. It is astonishing how short a time it can take for very wonderful things to happen.
She did not care very much for other little girls, but if she had plenty of books she could console herself.
A Little Princess
Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed in a book.
A Little Princess
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.
If you fill your mind with a beautiful thought, there will be no room in it for an ugly one. - King Amor
The Land of the Blue Flower