Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.
Louisa May AlcottRead
Work is and always has been my salvation and I thank the Lord for it.
Interpretation
Work provides purpose and fulfillment in life.
In this quote, Louisa May Alcott expresses her deep appreciation for work, viewing it as a source of salvation and strength. She acknowledges that her labor has been instrumental in her life, offering her not just financial stability, but also a sense of identity, purpose, and gratitude, particularly to a higher power for the opportunity to work.
In practice
Using this quote in a speech about the importance of work-life balance.
Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.
You have grown abominably lazy, and you like gossip, and waste time on frivolous things, you are contented to be petted and admired by silly people, instead of being loved and respected by wise ones.
"Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.
... 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
Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the only riches we can take out of this world with us.
It takes two flints to make a fire.
Remember you come here having already understood the necessity of struggling with yourself β only with yourself. Therefore thank everyone who gives you the opportunity.
It's better not to see than to see wrongly.
Find the right questions. You don't invent the answers, you reveal the answers.
There are some nights when sleep plays coy, aloof and disdainful. And all the wiles that I employ to win its service to my side are useless as wounded pride, and much more painful.
While we are born with curiosity and wonder and our early years full of the adventure they bring, I know such inherent joys are often lost. I also know that, being deep within us, their latent glow can be fanned to flame again by awareness and an open mind.
If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.
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