A holiday isn’t a holiday, without plenty of freedom and fun.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTA holiday isn’t a holiday, without plenty of freedom and fun.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTThe power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTIt takes so little to make a child happy, that it is a pity in a world full of sunshine and pleasant things, that there should be any wistful faces, empty hands, or lonely little hearts.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTThe duty we owe ourselves is greater than that we owe others.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTShe is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTThe emerging woman will be strong-minded, strong-hearted, strong-souled, and strong-bodied strength and beauty must go together.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTI 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 ALCOTTI am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTLove 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.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTLet my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth’s sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTMoney 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 ALCOTTFar 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 ALCOTTJo had learned that hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTWild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTMarriage, they say, halves one’s rights and doubles one’s duties.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTLove is a great beautifier.
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