Where the heart is the mind works best.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
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Where I wholly love I wholly trust.
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Louisa May AlcottLouisa 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 AlcottLouisa May Alcott Prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well.
Louisa May AlcottLouisa May Alcott Remember that frost comes latest to those that bloom the highest.
Louisa May AlcottLouisa May Alcott Better lose your life than your soul.
Louisa May AlcottLouisa May Alcott Fame is a pearl many dive for and only a few bring up. Even when they do, it is not perfect, and they sigh for more, and lose better things in struggling for them.
Louisa May AlcottLouisa May Alcott The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.
Louisa May AlcottLouisa 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 AlcottLouisa May Alcott Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic.
Louisa May AlcottLouisa May Alcott Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.
Louisa May AlcottLouisa May Alcott Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us – and those around us – more effectively. Look for the learning.
Louisa May AlcottLouisa May Alcott It takes two flints to make a fire.
Louisa May AlcottLouisa 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 AlcottLouisa May Alcott 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.
Louisa May AlcottLouisa May Alcott 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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