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 ALCOTTConceit spoils the finest genius.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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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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Well, if I can’t be happy, I can be useful, perhaps.
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A holiday isn’t a holiday, without plenty of freedom and fun.
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Some stories are so familiar its like going home.
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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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Don’t try to make me grow up before my time.
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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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It takes very little fire to make a great deal of smoke nowadays, and notoriety is not real glory.
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I like good strong words that mean something.
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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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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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Every house needs a grandmother in it.
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Honesty is the best policy, in love as in law.
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The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.
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There is very little real liberty in the world; even those who seem freest are often the most tightly bound. Law, custom, public opinion, fear or shame make slaves of us all, as you will find when you try your experiment.
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