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More Quotes by Louisa May Alcott
Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can
I want to do something splendid… Something heroic or wonderful that won’t be forgotten after I’m dead… I think I shall write books.
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.
It takes three or four women to get each man into, through, and out of the world.
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 duty we owe ourselves is greater than that we owe others.
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.
Our actions are in our own hands, but the consequences of them are not. Remember that, my dear, and think twice before you do anything.
The mere possession of a gun is, in itself, an urge to kill, not only by design, but by accident, by madness, by fright, by bravado.
One of the sweet things about pain and sorrow is that they show us how well we are loved, how much kindness there is in the world, and how easily we can make others happy in the same way when they need help and sympathy.
