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 ALCOTTSalt is like good-humor, and nearly every thing is better for a pinch of it.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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The duty we owe ourselves is greater than that we owe others.
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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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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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Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn’t worth ruling.
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Well, if I can’t be happy, I can be useful, perhaps.
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Preserve your memories, keep them well, what you forget you can never retell.
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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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Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth’s sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.
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Remember that frost comes latest to those that bloom the highest.
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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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My book came out; and people began to think that topsy-turvy Louisa would amount to something after all.
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I like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman question. Whatever we can do and do well we have a right to, and I don’t think any one will deny us.
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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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I believe that it is as much a right and duty for women to do something with their lives as for men and we are not going to be satisfied with such frivolous parts as you give us.
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Stay is a charming word in a friend’s vocabulary.
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