A holiday isn’t a holiday, without plenty of freedom and fun.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTWell, if I can’t be happy, I can be useful, perhaps.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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It takes two flints to make a fire.
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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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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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For love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride.
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I like good strong words that mean something.
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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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Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow.
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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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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.
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The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.
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I want to do something splendid, Something heroic or wonderful that won’t be forgotten after I’m dead I think I shall write books.
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Some stories are so familiar its like going home.
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Where the heart is the mind works best.
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Better lose your life than your soul.
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Nothing provokes speculation more than the sight of a woman enjoying herself.
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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’d rather take coffee than compliments now.
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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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People want to be amused, not preached at, you know. Morals don’t sell nowadays.
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Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.
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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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My book came out; and people began to think that topsy-turvy Louisa would amount to something after all.
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Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.
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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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Marriage, they say, halves one’s rights and doubles one’s duties.
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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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