Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us – and those around us – more effectively. Look for the learning.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTPainful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us – and those around us – more effectively. Look for the learning.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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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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I’ve got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen.
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Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.
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Love is a great beautifier.
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I don’t worry about the storms, I am learning to sail my own ship.
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Preserve your memories, keep them well, what you forget you can never retell.
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I don’t like favors; they oppress and make me fell like a slave. I’d rather do everything for myself, and be perfectly independent.
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It takes two flints to make a fire.
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Stay is a charming word in a friend’s vocabulary.
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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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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.
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Love is a flower that grows in any soil, works its sweet miracles undaunted by autumn frost or winter snow, blooming fair and fragrant all the year, and blessing those who give and those who receive.
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It’s amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them.
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The emerging woman will be strong-minded, strong-hearted, strong-souled, and strong-bodied strength and beauty must go together.
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The duty we owe ourselves is greater than that we owe others.
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