Louisa May Alcott Quotes

It's lovely to see people so happy.

Housekeeping ain't no joke.

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.

…proved that woman isn't a half but a whole human being, and can stand alone.

I will make a battering-ram of my head and make a way through this rough-and-tumble world.

Because in spite of this longing, I know that I shall purchase happiness at high price if I return; that new falsehood may betray me, new tyranny oppress me, and above all I feel that with this man I must lose more and more the love of all good things, so strong is his influence, so unprincipled his nature. My only hope is that I may save his soul and yet not lose my own. Can I, dare I do this?

I don't think secrets agree with me, I feel rumpled up in mind since you told me that…

Persuasive influences are better than any amount of moralizing.

Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

"In the midst of her tears came the thought, "When people are in danger, they ask God to save them;" and, slipping down upon her knees, she said her prayer as she had never said it before, for when human help seems gone we turn to Him as naturally as lost children cry to their father, and feel sure that he will hear and answer them."

You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius.

"That boy is a perfect cyclops, isn't he?" said Amy one day, as Laurie clattered by on horseback, with a flourish of his whip as he passed.

It is necessary to do right; it is not necessary to be happy.

I do like men who come out frankly and own that they are not gods.

I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.