Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
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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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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Nothing is impossible to a determined woman.
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Honesty is the best policy, in love as in law.
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Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.
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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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Father asked us what was God’s noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.
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The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.
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I like adventures, and I’m going to find some.
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Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn’t worth ruling.
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My book came out; and people began to think that topsy-turvy Louisa would amount to something after all.
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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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Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth’s sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.
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Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow.
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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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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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