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

    "Fictional character: Mary Lennox". "The Secret Garden", www.imdb.com. August 13, 1993.
  • Reading can be a road to freedom or a key to a secret garden, which, if tended, will transform all of life.

    Reading   Garden   Keys  
  • 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.

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

    Jesus   Writing   Men  
  • 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.

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

    Summer   Sweet   Night  
  • A beard on a man is only a way of hiding something, his face of course, but also the inner matters, like a hedge around a secret garden, or a cover over a bird cage.

    Sebastian Barry (2008). “The Secret Scripture”, p.84, Faber & Faber
  • And the secret garden bloomed and bloomed and every morning revealed new miracles.

    Frances Hodgson Burnett (2014). “The Secret Garden”, p.207, Trajectory Inc
  • She wished she could talk as he did. His speech was so quick and easy. It sounded as if he liked her and was not the least afraid she would not like him, though he was only a common moor boy, in patched clothes and with a funny face and a rough, rusty-red head.

    Boys   Clothes   Speech  
    Louisa May Alcott, Frances Hodgson Burnett, L. M. Montgomery, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Eleanor H. Porter (2017). “Charming Novels of Classic Heroines: Pollyanna, The Secret Garden, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, and Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm”, p.236, Open Road Media
  • 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 (2012). “Simple Abundance”, Random House
  • Just physically, if you looked at the house that I grew up in, my mother created this greenhouse. And surrounded the entire property. And there was, like, trees and sculptures and like - it was, like, this crazy, like, secret garden space.

    Mother   Crazy   Garden  
    Source: www.aaa.si.edu
  • My parents offered me my first camera for my birthday and I developed an exclusive passion for it over the years. Since I was not the most social kid on the block, the camera helped me to express myself, invent my own language - something like a secret garden. I decided early on I would not write in a diary but take silent photographs instead.

    Block   Passion   Writing  
    Source: www.cnn.com
  • Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind's desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.

    Secret   May   Sacred  
    Abraham Joshua Heschel (1976). “Man Is Not Alone: A Philosophy of Religion”, p.95, Macmillan
  • 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 (2003). “The Secret Garden: Centennial Edition”, p.143, Penguin
  • 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 (2016). “The Secret Garden”, p.165, Xist Publishing
  • Water makes me feel at peace. In Corsica, I spend most of my time on the beaches or in the rivers. That's one reason I love it there so much. The water is so clean and fresh - you can drink it straight out of the rivers! This island is my secret garden.

    Beach   Garden   Islands  
  • 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.

  • I think my love for books sprang from my need to escape the world I was born into, to slide into another where words were straightforward and honest, where there was clearly delineated good and evil, where I found girls who were strong and smart and creative and foolish enough to fight dragons, to run away from home to live in museums, to become child spies, to make new friends and build secret gardens.

    Girl   Running   Strong  
  • Much more surprising things can happen to anyone 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   Mind   Courageous  
    Frances Hodgson Burnett (2015). “The Secret Garden”, p.224, Xist Publishing
  • 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.

    Eye   Blue   Heathers  
    Frances Hodgson Burnett, General Press (2016). “The Secret Garden (Illustrated Edition)”, p.66, GENERAL PRESS
  • 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 (2016). “The Secret Garden”, p.165, Xist Publishing
  • 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.

    "Charming Novels of Classic Heroines".
  • 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.

    The Secret Garden ch. 1 (1911)
  • The first season of 'Community' stumbled a bit because the plotlines too often veered into realism, but that is not a problem anymore. Not when prize episodes concern a campuswide blanket fort, or a secret garden with a magic trampoline.

  • 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 (2016). “The Secret Garden”, p.297, Frances Hodgson Burnett
  • Everyone should cultivate a secret garden.

    Twitter post from Sep 20, 2014
  • 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.

    Forever   World   Strange  
    Frances Hodgson Burnett (2006). “The Secret Garden”, p.236, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • In our not-yet-acknowledged secret garden lie the seeds of some of our best not-yet-written stories

    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
  • I cut a lot of cringy sex stuff and a lot of stuff I thought was too personal. I think secret gardens are very special. I think we all have to have them. I think the secret of memoirs is keeping those parts of yourself off the page, which makes what you do share more valuable.

    Sex   Cutting   Garden  
    Source: www.guernicamag.com
  • Two things cannot be in one place. Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow.

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