Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTJo had learned that hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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Every house needs a grandmother in it.
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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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My book came out; and people began to think that topsy-turvy Louisa would amount to something after all.
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The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.
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A time will come when you will find that in gaining a brief joy you have lost your peace forever.
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Preserve your memories, keep them well, what you forget you can never retell.
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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’ve got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen.
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Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.
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Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.
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The duty we owe ourselves is greater than that we owe others.
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Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.
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I’d rather take coffee than compliments now.
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I don’t pretend to be wise, but I am observing, and I see a great deal more than you’d imagine. I’m interested in other people’s experiences and inconsistencies, and, though I can’t explain, I remember and use them for my own benefit.
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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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