One of the sweet things about pain and sorrow is that they show us how well we are loved, how much kindness there is in the world, and how easily we can make others happy in the same way when they need help and sympathy.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTFame is a pearl many dive for and only a few bring up. Even when they do, it is not perfect, and they sigh for more, and lose better things in struggling for them.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.
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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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He was the first, the only love her life, and in a nature like hers such passions take deep root and die-hard.
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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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People want to be amused, not preached at, you know. Morals don’t sell nowadays.
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Help one another is part of the religion of our sisterhood.
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Marriage, they say, halves one’s rights and doubles one’s duties.
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Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.
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Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can.
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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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Where I wholly love I wholly trust.
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Every house needs a grandmother in it.
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Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.
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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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A time will come when you will find that in gaining a brief joy you have lost your peace forever.
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