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 ALCOTTHave 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.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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Love is a great beautifier.
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Many argue; not many converse.
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Prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well.
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Don’t try to make me grow up before my time.
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Well, if I can’t be happy, I can be useful, perhaps.
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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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Don’t shut yourself up in a band box because you are a woman, but understand what is going on, and educate yourself to take part in the world’s work, for it all affects you and yours.
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The mere possession of a gun is, in itself, an urge to kill, not only by design, but by accident, by madness, by fright, by bravado.
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I don’t worry about the storms, I am learning to sail my own ship.
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Conceit spoils the finest genius.
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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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Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.
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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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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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Marriage, they say, halves one’s rights and doubles one’s duties.
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