I like adventures, and I’m going to find some.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTIn 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.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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Help one another is part of the religion of our sisterhood.
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It takes two flints to make a fire.
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Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.
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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.
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Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic.
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Where the heart is the mind works best.
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Stay is a charming word in a friend’s vocabulary.
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Remember that frost comes latest to those that bloom the highest.
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Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.
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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.
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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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Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.
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I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
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I don’t worry about the storms, I am learning to sail my own ship.
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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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