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“I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.”
-- Louisa May Alcott
#Inspirational #Confidence #Wisdom
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“The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.”
-- Louisa May Alcott
#Happiness #Beauty #Home
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“Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.”
-- Louisa May Alcott
#Life #Clouds #Light
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“He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.”
-- Louisa May Alcott
#Inspirational #Being Strong #Lonely
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“I ask not for any crown But that which all may win; Nor try to conquer any world Except the one within.”
-- Louisa May Alcott
#Inspirational #Wisdom #Winning
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“Love is a great beautifier.”
-- Louisa May Alcott
#Love #Life #Boyfriend
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“Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.”
-- Louisa May Alcott
#Happiness #Mother #Son
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“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.”
-- Louisa May Alcott
#Life #Dream #Believe
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“Marmee: Oh, Jo. Jo, you have so many extraordinary gifts; how can you expect to lead an ordinary life? You’re ready to go out and – and find a good use for your talent. Tho’ I don’t know what I shall do without my Jo. Go, and embrace your liberty. And see what wonderful things come of it.”
-- Louisa May Alcott
#Liberty #Ordinary #Use
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“It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.”
-- Louisa May Alcott
#Time #Learning #Men
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“I like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman question. Whatever we can do and do well we have a right to, and I don't think any one will deny us.”
-- Louisa May Alcott
#Thinking #Literature #Way
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“She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.”
-- Louisa May Alcott
#Book #Reading #Learning
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“I like adventures, and I’m going to find some.”
-- Louisa May Alcott
#Adventure
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“Every house needs a grandmother in it.”
-- Louisa May Alcott
#Grandmother #Grandparent #House
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“Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.”
-- Louisa May Alcott
#Book #Reading #Home
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“I like good strong words that mean something…”
-- Louisa May Alcott
#Strong #Mean #Little Women
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“Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.”
-- Louisa May Alcott
#Queens #Women #Long
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“It takes two flints to make a fire.”
-- Louisa May Alcott
#Love #Inspirational #Inspiring
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“I'd rather take coffee than compliments just now.”
-- Louisa May Alcott
#Coffee #Compliment
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“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.”
-- Louisa May Alcott
#Real #Book #Character
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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
#Love #Sweet #Fall
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“You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.”
-- Louisa May Alcott
#Real #Conceited #Long
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“...a capital patient, as she never died and never got well.”
-- Louisa May Alcott
#Patient #Wells
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“... swept into the giddy vortex which keeps so many young people revolving aimlessly, till they go down or are cast upon the shore, wrecks of what they might have been”
-- Louisa May Alcott
#People #Vortex #Wrecks
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“A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of governing it well.”
-- Louisa May Alcott
#Freedom #Feelings #Tasks
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“Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.”
-- Louisa May Alcott
#Inspirational #Truth #Names
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“Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.”
-- Louisa May Alcott
#Fathers Day #Baby #Work
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“Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say No when they mean Yes, and drive a man out of his wits for the fun of it.”
-- Louisa May Alcott
#Girl #Fun #Mean
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“To be strong, and beautiful, and go round making music all the time. Yes, she could do that, and with a very earnest prayer Polly asked for the strength of an upright soul, the beauty of a tender heart, the power to make her life a sweet and stirring song, helpful while it lasted, remembered when it died.”
-- Louisa May Alcott
#Beautiful #Sweet #Song
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“Young men often laugh at the sensible girls whom they secretly respect, and affect to admire the silly ones whom they secretly despise, because earnestness, intelligence, and womanly dignity are not the fashion.”
-- Louisa May Alcott
#Girl #Fashion #Silly
