You are the gull, Jo, strong and wild, fond of the storm and the wind, flying far out to sea, and happy all alone.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTFar 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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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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Well, if I can’t be happy, I can be useful, perhaps.
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Prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well.
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Help one another is part of the religion of our sisterhood.
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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 stories are so familiar its like going home.
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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.
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Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.
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Mothers can forgive anything! Tell me all, and be sure that I will never let you go, though the whole world should turn from you.
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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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The emerging woman will be strong-minded, strong-hearted, strong-souled, and strong-bodied strength and beauty must go together.
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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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I ask not for any crown But that which all may win; Nor try to conquer any world Except the one within.
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Where the heart is the mind works best.
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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.
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