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I want to do something splendid, Something heroic or wonderful that won’t be forgotten after I’m dead I think I shall write books.

Louisa May Alcott

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.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

Aspiration Beautiful Leadership Reach See Sunshine Try
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.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

Better Hard Lose Lost Man Rule Scars Soul Teach Yourself
It takes two flints to make a fire.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

Advice Fire One Liner
Nothing provokes speculation more than the sight of a woman enjoying herself.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

Enjoyment Talk Woman
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.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

Fall Independence Oppression Perfection Slave
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.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

Believe Dreams Kind Life Power Pursue True
Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

Evil Money Root
Where the heart is the mind works best.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

Best Heart Mindset Work
It takes three or four women to get each man into, through, and out of the world.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

Man Woman World
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 ALCOTT

Angel Beautiful Feeling Flower Learning Lesson Mystery Thinking Writing
Don’t shut yourself up in a band box because you are a woman, but understand what is going on, and educate yourself to take part in the world’s work, for it all affects you and yours.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

Affect Education Understand Woman Work World Yourself
Every house needs a grandmother in it.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

Family Home Mom Need One Liner
Father asked us what was God’s noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

Bad Children Father God Man Noble Work
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 ALCOTT

Afraid Heaven Home Leaving Myself Run Sick
My book came out; and people began to think that topsy-turvy Louisa would amount to something after all.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

Beginning Book People Thinking
Some stories are so familiar its like going home.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

Friendship Home Love Magic Relationship Story

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