It’s amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTLove is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
-
-
People want to be amused, not preached at, you know. Morals don’t sell nowadays.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT -
I ask not for any crown But that which all may win; Nor try to conquer any world Except the one within.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT -
The emerging woman will be strong-minded, strong-hearted, strong-souled, and strong-bodied strength and beauty must go together.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT -
Stay is a charming word in a friend’s vocabulary.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT -
I’ve got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT -
Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT -
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.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT -
He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT -
I often think flowers are the angels’ alphabet whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious and beautiful lessons for us to feel and learn.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT -
A time will come when you will find that in gaining a brief joy you have lost your peace forever.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT -
Nothing is impossible to a determined woman.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT -
I don’t like favors; they oppress and make me fell like a slave. I’d rather do everything for myself, and be perfectly independent.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT -
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.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT -
My book came out; and people began to think that topsy-turvy Louisa would amount to something after all.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT -
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.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT






