Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTThe power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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I often think flowers are the angels’ alphabet whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious and beautiful lessons for us to feel and learn.
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The scar will remain, but it is better for a man to lose both arms than his soul; and these hard years, instead of being lost, may be made the most precious of your lives, if they teach you to rule yourselves.
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Mothers can forgive anything! Tell me all, and be sure that I will never let you go, though the whole world should turn from you.
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You are the gull, Jo, strong and wild, fond of the storm and the wind, flying far out to sea, and happy all alone.
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Preserve your memories, keep them well, what you forget you can never retell.
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Don’t try to make me grow up before my time.
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We can’t any of us do all we would like, but we can do our best for every case that comes to us, and that helps amazingly.
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In the books I read the sinners are always more interesting than the saints, and in real life good people are dismally dull. I’ve no desire to be wicked, but I do want to be happy. A short life and a gay one for me and I’m willing to pay for my pleasure if it is necessary.
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It takes so little to make a child happy, that it is a pity in a world full of sunshine and pleasant things, that there should be any wistful faces, empty hands, or lonely little hearts.
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The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.
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A time will come when you will find that in gaining a brief joy you have lost your peace forever.
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Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic.
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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.
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I’d rather take coffee than compliments now.
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Help one another is part of the religion of our sisterhood.
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