The emerging woman will be strong-minded, strong-hearted, strong-souled, and strong-bodied strength and beauty must go together.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTIt takes so little to make a child happy, that it is a pity in a world full of sunshine and pleasant things, that there should be any wistful faces, empty hands, or lonely little hearts.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
-
-
Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT -
Stay is a charming word in a friend’s vocabulary.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT -
He was the first, the only love her life, and in a nature like hers such passions take deep root and die-hard.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT -
I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is the leaving you all. I’m not afraid, but it seems as if I should be homesick for you even in heaven.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT -
He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.
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 -
Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.
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 -
Salt is like good-humor, and nearly every thing is better for a pinch of it.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT -
We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.
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 -
The duty we owe ourselves is greater than that we owe others.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT -
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.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT -
The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT -
Jo had learned that hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT






