Louisa May Alcott Quotes

We all have our temptations, some far greater than yours, and it often takes us all our lives to conquer them.

Well, I am happy, and I won't fret, but it does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants, doesn't it?

I like adventures, and I’m going to find some.

I am angry nearly every day of my life, but I have learned not to show it; and I still try to hope not to feel it, though it may take me another forty years to do it.

- Louisa May Alcott

When you feel discontented, think over your blessings, and be grateful.

Learn to know and value the praise which is worth having, and to excite the admiration of excellent people by being modest as well as pretty

Love and Loyalty

If ever men and women are their simplest, sincerest selves, it is when suffering softens the one, and sympathy strengthens the other.

Well, I am happy, and I won't fret, but it does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants…

Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can.

Back to him she would never go, but in her lonely life still lived the sweet memory of that happy time when she believed in him and he was all in all to her.

El amor expulsa al miedo y la gratitud doblega al orgullo.

I've had a lot of troubles, so I write jolly tales.

A fit queen for that nest of roses was the human flower that adorned it, for a year of love and luxury had ripened her youthful beauty into a perfect bloom. Graceful by nature, art had little to do for her, and, with a woman’s aptitude, she had acquired the polish which society alone can give. Frank and artless as ever, yet less free in speech, less demonstrative in act; full of power and passion, yet still half unconscious of her gifts; beautiful with the beauty that wins the heart as well as satisfies the eye, yet unmarred by vanity or affectation. She now showed fair promise of becoming all that a deep and tender heart, an ardent soul and a gracious nature could make her, once life had tamed and taught her more.

Mine first — mine last — mine even in the grave!

…on some occasions, women, like dreams, go by contraries.