Louisa May Alcott quotes - page 2

The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely. (Louisa May Alcott)
Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds. View quote
Louisa May Alcott
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. View quote
Louisa May Alcott
Love is a flower that grows in any soil, works its sweet miracles undaunted by autumn frost or winter snow, blooming fair and fragrant all the year, and blessing those who give and those who receive. View quote
Louisa May Alcott
I've got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen. View quote
Louisa May Alcott
Oh, Jo, how could you? Your one beauty. View quote
Louisa May Alcott
Conceit spoils the finest genius. View quote
Louisa May Alcott
Watch and pray, dear, never get tired of trying, and never think it is impossible to conquer your fault. View quote
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Be worthy love, and love will come. View quote
Louisa May Alcott
You are the gull, Jo, strong and wild, fond of the storm and the wind, flying far out to sea, and happy all alone. View quote
Louisa May Alcott
You don't need scores of suitors. You need only one... if he's the right one. (Louisa May Alcott)
She preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up in the tin kitchen till called for, and the latter were less manageable. View quote
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Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy. View quote
Louisa May Alcott
I think she is growing up, and so begins to dream dreams, and have hopes and fears and fidgets, without knowing why or being able to explain them. View quote
Louisa May Alcott
Wouldn't it be fun if all the castles in the air which we make could come true and we could live in them? View quote
Louisa May Alcott
Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors. View quote
Louisa May Alcott
I should have been a great many things, Mr Mayor. View quote
Louisa May Alcott
Jo had learned that hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally... View quote
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I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me... View quote
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You have grown abominably lazy, and you like gossip, and waste time on frivolous things, you are contented to be petted and admired by silly people, instead of being loved and respected by wise ones. View quote
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You are like a chestnut burr, prickly outside, but silky-soft within, and a sweet kernel, if one can only get at it. Love will make you show your heart some day, and then the rough burr will fall off. (Louisa May Alcott)
Now and then, in this workaday world, things do happen in the delightful storybook fashion, and what a comfort that is. View quote
Louisa May Alcott
He was poor, yet always appeared to be giving something away; a stranger, yet everyone was his friend; no longer young, but as happy-hearted as a boy; plain and peculiar, yet his face looked beautiful to many. View quote
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Right Jo better be happy old maids than unhappy wives or unmaidenly girls running about to find husbands. View quote
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If life is often so hard as this, I don't see how we ever shall get through it... View quote
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