Louisa May Alcott Quotes

The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.

Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.

I've got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen.

Every few weeks she would shut herself up in her room, put on her scribbling suit, and fall into a vortex, as she expressed it, writing away at her novel with all her heart and soul, for till that was finished she could find no peace.

I want to do something splendid… Something heroic or wonderful that won’t be forgotten after I’m dead… I think I shall write books.

The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.

Love will make you show your heart someday...

I like good strong words that mean something…

Go on with your work as usual, for work is a blessed solace.

Mother Atkinson thought that every one should have a trade, or something to make a living out of , for rich people may grow poor, you know, and poor people have to work.... so when I saw how happy and independent those young ladies were, I wanted to have a trade, and then it wouldn't matter about money, though I like to have it well enough.

Love Jo all your days, if you choose, but don't let it spoil you, for it's wicked to throw away so many good gifts because you can't have the one you want.

You don’t need scores of suitors. You need only one… if he’s the right one.

Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.

Nothing is impossible to a determined woman.

I ask not for any crown
But that which all may win;
Nor try to conquer any world
Except the one within.

Conceit spoils the finest genius.

But, like all happiness, it did not last long…

Dear me! how happy and good we'd be, if we had no worries!

Well, I am happy, and I won't fret, but it does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants…

It's lovely to see people so happy.