Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTI don’t like favors; they oppress and make me fell like a slave. I’d rather do everything for myself, and be perfectly independent.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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I don’t pretend to be wise, but I am observing, and I see a great deal more than you’d imagine. I’m interested in other people’s experiences and inconsistencies, and, though I can’t explain, I remember and use them for my own benefit.
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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.
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I don’t worry about the storms, I am learning to sail my own ship.
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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.
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Honesty is the best policy, in love as in law.
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I’ve got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen.
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The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.
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Marriage, they say, halves one’s rights and doubles one’s duties.
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Love is a flower that grows in any soil, works its sweet miracles undaunted by autumn frost or winter snow, blooming fair and fragrant all the year, and blessing those who give and those who receive.
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Stay is a charming word in a friend’s vocabulary.
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The duty we owe ourselves is greater than that we owe others.
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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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Mothers can forgive anything! Tell me all, and be sure that I will never let you go, though the whole world should turn from you.
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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.
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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.
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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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Nothing is impossible to a determined woman.
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Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.
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It takes three or four women to get each man into, through, and out of the world.
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I like adventures, and I’m going to find some.
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Prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well.
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It’s lovely to see people so happy.
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One of the sweet things about pain and sorrow is that they show us how well we are loved, how much kindness there is in the world, and how easily we can make others happy in the same way when they need help and sympathy.
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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.
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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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Salt is like good-humor, and nearly every thing is better for a pinch of it.
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