It takes very little fire to make a great deal of smoke nowadays, and notoriety is not real glory.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTPainful 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.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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Stay is a charming word in a friend’s vocabulary.
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Preserve your memories, keep them well, what you forget you can never retell.
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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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The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.
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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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Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.
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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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A time will come when you will find that in gaining a brief joy you have lost your peace forever.
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My book came out; and people began to think that topsy-turvy Louisa would amount to something after all.
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Nothing is impossible to a determined woman.
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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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Love is a great beautifier.
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Some stories are so familiar its like going home.
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Where the heart is the mind works best.
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Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.
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