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 that--warm things, kind things, sweet things--help and comfort and laughter--and sometimes gay, kind laughter is the best help of all.
Frances Hodgson BurnettI don't know who it is," she said; "but somebody cares for me a little. I have a friend.
Frances Hodgson BurnettPerhaps you can feel if you canโt hear,โ was her fancy. โPerhaps kind thoughts reach people somehow, even through windows and doors and walls. Perhaps you feel a little warm and comforted, and donโt know why, when I am standing here in the cold and hoping you will get well and happy again.
Frances Hodgson BurnettIt's so easy that when you begin you can't stop. You just go on and on doing it always.
Frances Hodgson BurnettIs the spring coming?" he said. "What is it like?"... "It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine.
Frances Hodgson BurnettI dare say it is rather hard to be a rat,โ she mused. โNobody likes you. People jump and run away and scream out: โOh, a horrid rat!โ I shouldnโt like people to scream and jump and say: โOh, a horrid Sara!โ the moment they saw me, and set traps for me, and pretend they were dinner. Itโs so different to be a sparrow. But nobody asked this rat if he wanted to be a rat when he was made. Nobody said: โWouldnโt you rather be a sparrow?
Frances Hodgson Burnett