More Quotes by Louisa May Alcott
The emerging woman ... will be strong-minded, strong-hearted, strong-souled, and strong-bodied...strength and beauty must go together.
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.
When Emerson's library was burning at Concord, I went to him as he stood with the firelight on his strong, sweet face, and endeavored to express my sympathy for the loss of his most valued possessions, but he answered cheerily, 'Never mind, Louisa, see what a beautiful blaze they make! We will enjoy that now.' The lesson was one never forgotten and in the varied lessons that have come to me I have learned to look for something beautiful and bright.
I don't worry about the storms, I am learning to sail my own ship.
Where the heart is the mind works best.
...for love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride.
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.
Education is not confined to books, and the finest characters often graduate from no college, but make experience their master, and life their book. [Some care] only for the mental culture, and [are] in danger of over-studying, under the delusion . . . that learning must be had at all costs, forgetting that health and real wisdom are better.
The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.
A faithful friend is a strong defense; And he that hath found him hath found a treasure.
