If you feel your value lies in being merely decorative, I fear that someday you might find yourself believing that’s all that you really are. Time erodes all such beauty, but what it cannot diminish is the wonderful workings of your mind: Your humor, your kindness, and your moral courage. These are the things I cherish so in you. I so wish I could give my girls a more just world. But I know you’ll make it a better place." -- Marmee, Little Women
It’s amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them. - Louisa May Alcott
It’s amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them.
- Louisa May Alcott
I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship. - Louisa May Alcott
I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely. - Louisa May Alcott
The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.
Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can - Louisa May Alcott
Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can
Far away there 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 … - Louisa May Alcott
Far away there 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 …
Nothing is impossible to a determined woman. - Louisa May Alcott
Nothing is impossible to a determined woman.
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 belie… - 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 belie…
Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds. - Louisa May Alcott
Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.
Don't try to make me grow up before my time. - Louisa May Alcott
Don't try to make me grow up before my time.
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