More Quotes by Louisa May Alcott
I don't worry about the storms, I am learning to sail my own ship.
Nothing is impossible to a determined woman.
Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.
Many argue; not many converse.
life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.
Preserve your memories, keep them well, what you forget you can never retell.
Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.
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
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.
It’s amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them.
