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.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTSimple, 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.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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Life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.
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Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.
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Better lose your life than your soul.
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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.
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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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Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can.
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Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow.
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Where I wholly love I wholly trust.
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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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Help one another is part of the religion of our sisterhood.
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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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Stay is a charming word in a friend’s vocabulary.
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We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.
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I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
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People want to be amused, not preached at, you know. Morals don’t sell nowadays.
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Don’t try to make me grow up before my time.
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Prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well.
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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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Some stories are so familiar its like going home.
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I don’t worry about the storms, I am learning to sail my own ship.
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Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.
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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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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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The duty we owe ourselves is greater than that we owe others.
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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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It’s lovely to see people so happy.
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