Better lose your life than your soul.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTIf we are all alive ten years hence, let’s meet, and see how many of us have got our wishes, or how much nearer we are then than now.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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Prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well.
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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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Where the heart is the mind works best.
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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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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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If we are all alive ten years hence, let’s meet, and see how many of us have got our wishes, or how much nearer we are then than now.
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Preserve your memories, keep them well, what you forget you can never retell.
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It takes two flints to make a fire.
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Life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.
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Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the only riches we can take out of this world with us.
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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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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.
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Help one another is part of the religion of our sisterhood.
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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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I like good strong words that mean something.
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Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.
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She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.
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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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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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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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I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is the leaving you all. I’m not afraid, but it seems as if I should be homesick for you even in heaven.
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People want to be amused, not preached at, you know. Morals don’t sell nowadays.
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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 three or four women to get each man into, through, and out of the world.
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Stay is a charming word in a friend’s vocabulary.
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