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More Quotes by Louisa May Alcott
If you feel your value lies in being merely decorative, I fear that someday you might find yourself believing that’s all that you really are. Time erodes all such beauty, but what it cannot diminish is the wonderful workings of your mind: Your humor, your kindness, and your moral courage. These are the things I cherish so in you. I so wish I could give my girls a more just world. But I know you’ll make it a better place." -- Marmee, Little Women
It takes three or four women to get each man into, through, and out of the world.
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.
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.
Nothing is impossible to a determined woman.
Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the only riches we can take out of this world with us.
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.
Preserve your memories, keep them well, what you forget you can never retell.
Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can
...for love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride.
