Occupation: Playwright Birth: November 24, 1849 Death: October 29, 1924
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 w….
You either build up or you tear down. You either keep in the light where you can see, or you stand in the dark and fight everything that comes near y….
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….
Nothing in the world is so strong as a kind heart..
Everything's a story - You are a story -I am a story..
Hang in there. It is astonishing how short a time it can take for very wonderful things to happen..
As long as you have a garden you have a future and as long as you have a future you are alive..
Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it..
Two worst things as can happen to a child is never to have his own way - or always to have it..
If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden..
When a man looks at the stars, he grows calm and forgets small things. They answer his questions and show him that his earth is only one of the milli….
And the secret garden bloomed and bloomed and every morning revealed new miracles..
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 hea….
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. The….
Two things cannot be in one place. Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow..
Somehow, something always happens just before things get to the very worst. It is as if Magic did it. If I could only just remember that always. The ….
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 thi….
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 be….
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 aft….
There's nothing so strong as rage, except what makes you hold it in—that's stronger. It's a good thing not to answer your enemies. I scarcely ever do..
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..