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.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTWild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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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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Honesty is the best policy, in love as in law.
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Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.
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Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.
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The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.
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I like good strong words that mean something.
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Where the heart is the mind works best.
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I believe that it is as much a right and duty for women to do something with their lives as for men and we are not going to be satisfied with such frivolous parts as you give us.
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It’s amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them.
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It’s lovely to see people so happy.
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Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the only riches we can take out of this world with us.
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If we are all alive ten years hence, let’s meet, and see how many of us have got our wishes, or how much nearer we are then than now.
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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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Don’t shut yourself up in a band box because you are a woman, but understand what is going on, and educate yourself to take part in the world’s work, for it all affects you and yours.
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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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