As long as one has a garden, one has a future. As long as one has a future, one is alive.

She says it has nothing to do with what you look like, or what you have. It has only to do with what you think of and what you do.

Nothing in the world is so strong as a kind heart.

What you have to do with your mind, when your body is miserable, is to make it think of something else.

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.

And the secret garden bloomed and bloomed and every morning revealed new miracles.

In the garden there was nothing which was not quite like themselves - 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 there had been one person in that garden who had not known through all his or her innermost being that if an Egg were taken away or hurt the whole world would whirl round and crash through space and come to an end... there could have been no happiness even in that golden springtime air.