Secret Garden Quotes

• Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high.

  William Goldman

  Wall, Princess, Heart

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride: An Illustrated Edition of S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure”, p.185, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• And the secret garden bloomed and bloomed and every morning revealed new miracles.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Morning, Garden, Miracle

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2014). “The Secret Garden”, p.207, Trajectory Inc

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

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Cheer Up, Positive Attitude, Garden

  "Fictional character: Mary Lennox". "The Secret Garden", www.imdb.com. August 13, 1993.

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• 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 us

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Magic, Enough

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2003). “The Secret Garden: Centennial Edition”, p.143, Penguin

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• Prayer is like a secret garden made up of silence and rest and inwardness. But there are a thousand and one doors into this garden and we all have to find our own.

  Jean Vanier

  Prayer, Garden, Doors

  Jean Vanier, Ann Shearer (1989). “Community and Growth”, p.190, Paulist Press

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• Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Gratitude, Reality, Garden

  Sarah Ban Breathnach (2012). “Simple Abundance”, Random House

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• Two things cannot be in one place. Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Two, Rose, Thistles

  Frances Hodgson Burnett, General Press (2016). “The Secret Garden (Illustrated Edition)”, p.175, GENERAL PRESS

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• 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.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Long, Mind, Fever

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2003). “The Secret Garden: Centennial Edition”, p.168, Penguin

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• 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

  Inspirational, Hope, Believe

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2016). “The Secret Garden”, p.297, Frances Hodgson Burnett

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• Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend... when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present - love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature and personal pursuits that bring us pleasure - the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience Heaven on earth.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Happiness, Success, Gratitude

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• 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.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Positive, Nice, Thinking

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2016). “The Secret Garden”, p.165, Xist Publishing

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• 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.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Eye, Blue, Heathers

  Frances Hodgson Burnett, General Press (2016). “The Secret Garden (Illustrated Edition)”, p.66, GENERAL PRESS

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• 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.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Flower, Animal, Garden

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2003). “The Secret Garden: Centennial Edition”, p.143, Penguin

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• One of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now and then one is quite sure one is going to live forever and ever and ever.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Forever, World, Strange

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2006). “The Secret Garden”, p.236, ReadHowYouWant.com

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

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Children, Two, Way

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2003). “The Secret Garden: Centennial Edition”, p.111, Penguin

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• Everyone should cultivate a secret garden.

  Esther Perel

  Garden, Secret, Should

  Twitter post from Sep 20, 2014

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• She did not know that this was the best thing she could have done, and she did not know that, when she began to walk quickly or even run along the paths and down the avenue, she was stirring her slow blood and making herself stronger by fighting with the wind which swept down from the moor.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Fighting, Wind, Stronger

  "Charming Novels of Classic Heroines".

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• 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.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Magic In The World, People, Courses

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2016). “The Secret Garden”, p.165, Xist Publishing

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• Reading can be a road to freedom or a key to a secret garden, which, if tended, will transform all of life.

  Katherine Paterson

  Reading, Garden, Keys

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• In our not-yet-acknowledged secret garden lie the seeds of some of our best not-yet-written stories

  Sol Stein

  Lying, Garden, Secret

  Sol Stein (2014). “How to Grow a Novel: The Most Common Mistakes Writers Make and How to Overcome Them”, p.68, St. Martin's Press

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• In those sticky summer nights in South London our windows stay open and our tiny apartment becomes our secret garden. The magic of the secret garden is that it exists in our imagination. There are no limits, no borderlines. The secret garden leads to the marigolds of Mogadishu and the magnolias of Kingston and when the heat turns us sticky and sweet and unwilling to be claimed by defeat we own the night. We own our bodies. We own our lives.

  Diriye Osman

  Summer, Sweet, Night

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• 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.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Uncles, Children, Selfish

  The Secret Garden ch. 1 (1911)

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• Write what's up there." Sister Ignatius pointed at her temple. "As a great man once said, this is a secret garden. We've all got one of those." "Jesus?" "No, Bruce Springsteen.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Jesus, Writing, Men

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• If I had to pick a single word to describe what my pictures are all about, I would say 'secrets.' As a child I always had a secret world and my favorite book was “A Secret Garden.

  Joyce Tenneson

  Photography, Children, Book

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• I'm waxed clean - hairless as the day as I was born. But don't say 'Tia has no pubic hair.' That's so clinical. Use a nice euphemism. Say 'She's mowed her secret garden' or 'She's cleared the way to the Promised Land.' Because that's what it is, right?

  Tia Carrere

  Nice, Garden, Hair

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