The emerging woman will be strong-minded, strong-hearted, strong-souled, and strong-bodied strength and beauty must go together.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTHave 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.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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It’s lovely to see people so happy.
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Well, if I can’t be happy, I can be useful, perhaps.
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Love is a great beautifier.
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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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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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A faithful friend is a strong defense; And he that hath found him hath found a treasure.
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It’s amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them.
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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.
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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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For love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride.
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Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow.
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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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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.
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Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.
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Better lose your life than your soul.
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Mothers can forgive anything! Tell me all, and be sure that I will never let you go, though the whole world should turn from you.
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Remember that frost comes latest to those that bloom the highest.
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I like good strong words that mean something.
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I’d rather take coffee than compliments now.
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Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.
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Stay is a charming word in a friend’s vocabulary.
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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.
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Painful 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.
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Love 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.
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She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.
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A holiday isn’t a holiday, without plenty of freedom and fun.
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