It’s amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTHelp one another is part of the religion of our sisterhood.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow.
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I don’t like favors; they oppress and make me fell like a slave. I’d rather do everything for myself, and be perfectly independent.
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If 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.
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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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People want to be amused, not preached at, you know. Morals don’t sell nowadays.
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I’d rather take coffee than compliments now.
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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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He was the first, the only love her life, and in a nature like hers such passions take deep root and die-hard.
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Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.
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It 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.
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She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.
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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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Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can.
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Well, if I can’t be happy, I can be useful, perhaps.
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Better lose your life than your soul.
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