Work is always my salvation and I will celebrate it.
A holiday isn’t a holiday, without plenty of freedom and fun.
Rule yourself. Love your neighbor. Do the duty that lies nearest you.
Now and then genius carries all before it, but not often. We have to climb slowly, with many slips and falls.
Go out more, keep cheerful as well as busy, for you are the sunshine-maker of the family, and if you get dismal there is no fair weather.
She fell into the moody, miserable state of mind which often comes when strong wills have to yield to the inevitable.
Back to him she would never go, but in her lonely life still lived the sweet memory of that happy time when she believed in him and he was all in all to her.
No woman should give her happiness into the keeping of a man without fixed principles...
I’m tired of praise; and love is very sweet, when it is simple and sincere like this.
Love is apt to make lunatics of even men and saints.
The moment Aunt March took her nap, or was busy with company, Jo hurried to this quiet place, and curling herself up in the easy chair, devoured poetry, romance, history, travels, and pictures like a regular bookworm.
I am angry nearly every day of my life, but I have learned not to show it; and I still try to hope not to feel it, though it may take me another forty years to do it.
I think we are all hopelessly flawed.
I do like men who come out frankly and own that they are not gods.
We don’t choose our talents; but we needn’t hide them in a napkin because they are not just what we want.
It’s lovely to see people so happy.
Dan clung to her in speechless gratitude, feeling the blessedness of mother love, – that divine gift which comforts, purifies, and strengthens all who seek it.
A quick temper, sharp tongue, and restless spirit were always getting her into scrapes, and her life was a series of ups and downs, which were both comic and pathetic.
Oh dear, life is pretty tough sometimes, isn’t it?
Young people think they never can change, but they do in the most wonderful manner, and very few die of broken hearts.