70+ Louisa May Alcott Quotes | Minimalist Quotes

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

Fall Independence Oppression Perfection Slave
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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Alone Fly Happiness Storm Strong Wild Wind
Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.
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Book Choice Enjoyment Friendship Goodness Selection
He was the first, the only love her life, and in a nature like hers such passions take deep root and die-hard.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

Death Hard Herself Life Love Nature Passion
Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow.
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People Shadow Sunshine
Where the heart is the mind works best.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

Best Heart Mindset Work
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.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

Book Happiness Life Myself Necessary Pay People Reading Reality Sin Willing
I’d rather take coffee than compliments now.
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Coffee Compliment Funny Instagram Captions
Honesty is the best policy, in love as in law.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

Best Honesty Law Love Policy
Don’t shut yourself up in a band box because you are a woman, but understand what is going on, and educate yourself to take part in the world’s work, for it all affects you and yours.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

Affect Education Understand Woman Work World Yourself
Love is a great beautifier.
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Beautiful Greatness Love One Liner
Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.
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Art Garden Natural Rose Wild
There is very little real liberty in the world; even those who seem freest are often the most tightly bound. Law, custom, public opinion, fear or shame make slaves of us all, as you will find when you try your experiment.
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Experiment Fear Freedom Goodness Liberty Reality Shame Slave Try World
Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.
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Book Friendship Home Reading
Marriage, they say, halves one’s rights and doubles one’s duties.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

Marriage Oneself Responsibility Right
My book came out; and people began to think that topsy-turvy Louisa would amount to something after all.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

Beginning Book People Thinking
Nothing is impossible to a determined woman.
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Determination Impossible Inspirational One Liner Woman Women Empowerment
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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Children Empty Face Happiness Heart Lonely Shine Sun World
Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

Comfortable Hard Time Hope Inspirational Light Soul
It takes very little fire to make a great deal of smoke nowadays, and notoriety is not real glory.
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Fire Glory Greatness Reality
Don’t try to make me grow up before my time.
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Growth Myself Time Try
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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Bad Children Father God Man Noble Work
Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.
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Challenge Faith Happiness Mom Son
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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Deep Heaven Key Myself See
Every house needs a grandmother in it.
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Family Home Mom Need One Liner
Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn’t worth ruling.
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Deep Queen Rule Time Woman Worth
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.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

Better Hard Lose Lost Man Rule Scars Soul Teach Yourself

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