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 ALCOTTLove 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.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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Marriage, they say, halves one’s rights and doubles one’s duties.
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Well, if I can’t be happy, I can be useful, perhaps.
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Jo had learned that hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally.
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Remember that frost comes latest to those that bloom the highest.
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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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Where the heart is the mind works best.
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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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It’s lovely to see people so happy.
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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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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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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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Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow.
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Honesty is the best policy, in love as in law.
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Preserve your memories, keep them well, what you forget you can never retell.
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