Frances Hodgson Burnett Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. My mother always says people should be able to take care of themselves, even if they're rich and important. The Secret Garden

2. 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 you in you may never get over it as long as you live.

3. 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. The few books she had read and liked had been fairy-story books, and she had read of secret gardens in some of the stories. Sometimes people went to sleep in them for a hundred years, which she had thought must be rather stupid. She had no intention of going to sleep, and, in fact, she was becoming wider awake every day which passed at Misselthwaite. The Secret Garden

4. Children's as good as 'rithmetic to set you findin' out things. The Secret Garden

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

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

7. 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.