If you fill your mind with a beautiful thought, there will be no room in it for an ugly one. – King Amor

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...

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...

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...

If you keep doing it everyday as regularly as soldiers go through drill, we shall see what will happend and find out if the experiment succeeds. You learn things by saying them over and over...

The great strength she had used in the old days to conquer and subdue, to win her will and to defend her way, seemed now a power but to protect the suffering and uphold the...

She did not care very much for other little girls, but if she had plenty of books she could console herself.

What does it say?” asked my lord.”It says, `Good-night, God keep you all the night!’–just what she used to say when we were together. Every night she used to say that to me, and every...

Sometimes since I’ve been in the garden I’ve looked up through the trees at the sky and I have had a strange feeling of being happy as if something was pushing and drawing in my...

Why, we are just the same – I am only a little girl like you. It’s just an accident that I am not you, and you are not me!

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.

…if He made us, He must know He is to blame when He has made us weak or evil. And He must understand why we have been so made, and when we throw ourselves into...

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...

Nothing in the world is so strong as a kind heart

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.

The mere fact that Lottie had come and gone away again made things seem a little worse-just as perhaps prisoners feel a little more desolate after visitors come and go, leaving them behind.

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...

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...

He had made himself believe that he was going to get well, which was really more than half the battle.

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...

Hang in there. It is astonishing how short a time it can take for very wonderful things to happen.

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...

You can lose a friend in springtime easier than any other season if you’re too curious.

Magic is in her just as it is in Dickon,” said Colin. “It makes her think of ways to do things – nice things.

My mother always says people should be able to take care of themselves, even if they’re rich and important.

She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things and telling them to herself.

Two worst things as can happen to a child is never to have his own way – or always to have it.

I am sure there is Magic in everything, only we have not sence enough to get hold of it and make it do things for us – like electricity and horses and steam.

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...

Nobody likes you. People jump and run away and scream out: ‘Oh, a horrid rat!’ I shouldn’t like people to scream and jump and say: ‘Oh, a horrid Sara!’ the moment they saw me, and...

They’re a pair of young Satans.

You said th’ Magic was in my back. Th’ doctor calls it rheumatics.

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 look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a 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...

Trataré de descubrir qué significa para mi la magia pues creo que hay magia en todo lo que nos rodea.

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…

I know what it is to be hungry, and it is very hard when one cannot even pretend it away. -Sara

How is it that animals understand things I do not know, but it is certain that they do understand. Perhaps there is a language that is not made up of words & everything in this...

The sun is shining – the sun is shining. That is the Magic. The flower are growing – the roots are stirring. That is the Magic. Being alive is the Magic – being strong is...

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...

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...