Frances Hodgson Burnett Quotes

when the day comes that I kneel by your bedside and see your eyes close, or you kneel by mine, it must be that the one who waits behind shall know the parting is not all.

Mistress Mary Quite Contrary

Perhaps you can feel if you can’t hear,” was her fancy. “Perhaps kind thoughts reach people somehow, even through windows and doors and walls. Perhaps you feel a little warm and comforted, and don’t know why, when I am standing here in the cold and hoping you will get well and happy again.

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

When a man is overcome by anger, he has a poisoned fever. He loses his strength, he loses his power over himself and over others. He throws away time in which he might have gained the end he desires. The is no time for anger in the world. - The Ancient One

That's what I look at some people for. I like to know about them. I think them over afterward.

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.

As long as you have a garden you have a future and as long as you have a future you are alive.