I don’t worry about the storms, I am learning to sail my own ship.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTYou are the gull, Jo, strong and wild, fond of the storm and the wind, flying far out to sea, and happy all alone.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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Father asked us what was God’s noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.
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The scar will remain, but it is better for a man to lose both arms than his soul; and these hard years, instead of being lost, may be made the most precious of your lives, if they teach you to rule yourselves.
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He was the first, the only love her life, and in a nature like hers such passions take deep root and die-hard.
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Remember that frost comes latest to those that bloom the highest.
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Every house needs a grandmother in it.
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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 adventures, and I’m going to find some.
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Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.
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My book came out; and people began to think that topsy-turvy Louisa would amount to something after all.
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I like good strong words that mean something.
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Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can.
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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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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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It’s amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them.
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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.
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