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.
Louisa May AlcottI only mean to say that I have a feeling that it never was intended I should live long. I'm not like the rest of you.
Louisa May AlcottWhere's the use of looking nice, when no one sees me but those cross midgets, and no one cares whether I'm pretty or not?
Louisa May AlcottTag: looks pretty appearance
Beth ceased to fear him from that moment, and sat there talking to him as cozily as if she had known him all her life, for love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride.
Louisa May AlcottRight Jo better be happy old maids than unhappy wives or unmaidenly girls running about to find husbands.
Louisa May AlcottThe scar will remain, but it is better for a man to lose both arms than his soul; and these hard years, instead of being lost, may be made the most precious of your lives, if they teach you to rule yourselves.
Louisa May AlcottChance words spoken in kindness often help amazingly; and that's what old people are here for -- else their experience is of little use.
Louisa May AlcottEducation 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 AlcottShe 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.
Louisa May AlcottTag: relationships heroes real imaginary
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.
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