In each century since the beginning of the world wonderful things have been discovered. In the last centurymore amazing things were found out than in any century before. In this new century hundreds o...
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 and think...
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 t...
How does thee like thyself?
Nothing which did not understand the wonderfulness of what was happening to them--the immense, tender, terrible, heart-breaking beauty and solemnity of Eggs...if an Egg were to be taken away or hurt t...
Secret garden that morning, and in the midst of
Things happen to people by accident,
She was so happy that she scarcely dared to breathe.
Pig! Pig! Daughter of Pigs! she said, because to call a native a pig is the worst insult of all.
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...
I am a princess. All girls are. Even if they live in tiny old attics. Even if they dress in rags, even if they aren’t pretty, or smart, or young. They’re still princesses.
But only be good, dear, only be brave, only be kind and true always, and then you will never hurt any one, so long as you live, and you may help many, and the big world may be better because my little...
SARA CREWE OR WHAT HAPPENED AT MISS MINCHIN'S BY FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT NEW YORKCHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS1891 Copyright, 1888, by CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS.
People never like me and I never like people,
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.
I suppose there might be good in things, even if we don’t see it.
I am sure she comes out sometimes to see me—though I don’t see her.
It is astonishing how short a time it takes for very wonderful things to happen.
وقتی دارند به آدم توهین می کنند هیچ چیز بهتر از سکوت نیست.
Unceasingly