I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTI am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTIf 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.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTMothers can forgive anything! Tell me all, and be sure that I will never let you go, though the whole world should turn from you.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTPreserve your memories, keep them well, what you forget you can never retell.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTDon’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 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 ALCOTTNothing is impossible to a determined woman.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTSalt is like good-humor, and nearly every thing is better for a pinch of it.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTThe 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.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTHe was the first, the only love her life, and in a nature like hers such passions take deep root and die-hard.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTJo had learned that hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTMany argue; not many converse.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTA time will come when you will find that in gaining a brief joy you have lost your peace forever.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTSome stories are so familiar its like going home.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTI 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.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTFather 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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