I still have spring fever, and just reread The Secret Garden in an attempt to appease my illness! I had forgotten how good that book is, and had forgotten one of my favorite parts about it. I was just talking to some friends about my fear of auditioning earlier, and find this part to be most fitting for my life at the moment, too.In the last chapter of the book, Frances Hodgson Burnett wrote:
“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 poison. 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 after it has got in you may never get over it as long as you live…Much more surprising things can happen to any one 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.
"Where, you tend a rose, my lad, A thistle cannot grow."
Wonderful stuff! I want to make a big sign with that last bit and put it up above my piano so I won’t forget it!
3 comments:
thank you for the inspiring thought! I need to read more things daily that remind me of what really matters.
I also loved the passage you quoted. We're creating our "adventure" each step of the way thru every thought and choice. Dream Big! Choose again! Think Positive! glad you guys are up and blogging. thanks againg for the birthday songs!!
here is a favourite line I like to comment to each new blog I visit:
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."- martin luther king, jr.
so keep up the good work! x Rach
Thanks for checking us out guys! Good to hear from you Rachel!
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