I’d rather take coffee than compliments now.
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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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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Prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well.
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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.
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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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Salt is like good-humor, and nearly every thing is better for a pinch of it.
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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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Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.
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You are the gull, Jo, strong and wild, fond of the storm and the wind, flying far out to sea, and happy all alone.
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I ask not for any crown But that which all may win; Nor try to conquer any world Except the one within.
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It takes very little fire to make a great deal of smoke nowadays, and notoriety is not real glory.
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Father 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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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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Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn’t worth ruling.
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Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.
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The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.
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