More Quotes by Louisa May Alcott
Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow.
The emerging woman ... will be strong-minded, strong-hearted, strong-souled, and strong-bodied...strength and beauty must go together.
He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.
Many argue; not many converse.
Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can
We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.
It’s amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them.
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.
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
Nothing is impossible to a determined woman.
