More Quotes by Louisa May Alcott
Preserve your memories, keep them well, what you forget you can never retell.
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 follow where they lead.
Life is my university, and I hope to graduate from it with some distinction.
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
Nothing is impossible to a determined woman.
Prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well.
I don't worry about the storms, I am learning to sail my own ship.
It takes three or four women to get each man into, through, and out of the world.
I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
Education 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.
