Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTIf 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.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
-
-
Many argue; not many converse.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT -
The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT -
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.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT -
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.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT -
Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT -
People want to be amused, not preached at, you know. Morals don’t sell nowadays.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT -
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.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT -
My book came out; and people began to think that topsy-turvy Louisa would amount to something after all.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT -
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.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT -
Where I wholly love I wholly trust.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT -
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.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT -
Marriage, they say, halves one’s rights and doubles one’s duties.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT -
She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT -
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.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT -
Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT