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.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTHelp one another is part of the religion of our sisterhood.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.
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I’ve got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen.
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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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It’s amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them.
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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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Honesty is the best policy, in love as in law.
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Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth’s sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.
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I’d rather take coffee than compliments now.
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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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The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.
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Prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well.
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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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Jo had learned that hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally.
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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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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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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.
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In the books I read the sinners are always more interesting than the saints, and in real life good people are dismally dull. I’ve no desire to be wicked, but I do want to be happy. A short life and a gay one for me and I’m willing to pay for my pleasure if it is necessary.
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Remember that frost comes latest to those that bloom the highest.
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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.
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I 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.
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Nothing is impossible to a determined woman.
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I don’t worry about the storms, I am learning to sail my own ship.
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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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She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.
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Fame is a pearl many dive for and only a few bring up. Even when they do, it is not perfect, and they sigh for more, and lose better things in struggling for them.
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Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.
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