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I have nothing to give but my heart so full and these empty hands."

"They're not empty now.


Louisa May Alcott

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I have poured my heart out ….
And now I am empty.
RANATA SUZUKI Yet nothing can to nothing fall,
Nor any place be empty quite;
Therefore I think my breast...
JOHN DONNE If nature has made you a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart. And though there may...
FRANCES BURNETT i do not want to have you
to fill the empty parts of me
i want to be full on my own
<...
RUPI KAUR Now faith is not what we
hereafter have we have a
world resting on nothing

Rest...
SUSAN HOWE And the emotion is especially strong in Boston. Here, Louisa May Alcott is their home-town girl.
KATE FISHER I did never know so full a voice issue from so empty a heart: but the saying is true 'The empty vess...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I did never know so full a voice issue from so empty a heart; but the saying is true, 'The empty ve...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If we are not empty, we become a block of matter.
We cannot breathe, we cannot think.
To be ...
THICH NHAT HANH My life is never empty because my heart is always full.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS ...if you live feeling like
Your glass is half empty, well,
It may as well be empty all th...
MATTIE J.T. STEPANEK Papa was a man with silver eyes, not dead ones.
Papa was an accordion!
But his bellows w...
MARKUS ZUSAK HELP!”
I race to the square, crossing it, looking all around, listening out-
No.<...
PATRICK NESS I wish I had no heart, it aches so…
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Imagine a delicious glass of summer iced tea.

Take a long cool sip. Listen to the ice cra...
VERA NAZARIAN Oh, I see;" said the Tin Woodman. "But, after all, brains are not the best things in the world."
L. FRANK BAUM In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.
ANTONIO PORCHIA I don't wish to argue,
whether the glass is
half empty or half full,
as long as what ...
AKASH MANDAL people diminish me;
the longer I sit and listen to them
the more empty I feel but I don't...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI What am I to do?
What is my destiny?
I have no idea, not a clue
Feeling lost and empt...
ATARAH L. POLING for those memories are now
just like these little kittens
I hold in my hands

th...
SANOBER KHAN I constantly pack my pockets full of worthless trinkets, and in such misguided gorging I leave my he...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Only after loving you
I realised I had an empty space;
this little void, a tad bit of hol...
NEENA H BRAR In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing. -Ant...
ANTONIO PORCHIA Who will remember Todd?
Who will remember what he did?
Todd -
Todd -
And ...
PATRICK NESS Your half empty..

A broken glass,

I love you can sound so beautiful

BRITTANY WILLIAMS I didn’t want any flowers, I only wanted
To lie with my hands turned up and be utterly empty....
SYLVIA PLATH You have my heart,
send me a little word,
that I may go
unto her and take her hands
...
BJORK Empty-handed I entered the world
Barefoot I leave it.
My coming, my going --
Two simp...
KOZAN ICHIKYO I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and o...
THOMAS JEFFERSON I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
ALICE LONGWORTH I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full and scratch where it itches.
ALICE ROOSEVELT LONGWORTH I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
ALICE ROOSEVELT LONGWORTH One day in fridge their was a empty milk carton and a half full milk carton.The half full milk carto...
GARY F EVANS... If nature has made you for a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart; and though there...
FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.
ALICE ROOSEVELT LONGWORTH I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.
ALICE ROOSEVELT LONGWORTH I'm lonely,
Yes! I'm so lonely.
I'm Just a sad tear that came out of the depths of pain....
EYDEN I. Don't go far off, not even for a day,
because I don't know how to say it - a day is long
a...
PABLO NERUDA Let my silence grow with noise
as pregnant mothers grow with life.
Let my silence permea...
KAMAND KOJOURI If you feel so empty
So used up, so let down
If you feel so angry
So ripped off so st...
THREE DAYS GRACE What do you want Phoenix?"
"I'm going away for a while. I wanted to say goodbye." He smiled, bu...
JESSICA SHIRVINGTON I come to you with only Karate, Empty Hands. I have no weapons, but should I be forced to defend mys...
ED PARKER Some say the glass is half full and blush,
Some say it’s half empty and sink,
I feel you...
JASLEEN KAUR GUMBER They cannot scare me with their empty spaces
Between stars—on stars where no human race is. ROBERT FROST My wife is coming. And I may not have hands to hold her hands, but I don't need hands to hold her he...
NICK VUJICIC Are you there? I call for you.
I've been calling your name,
Searching every place in my m...
TANZY SAYADI I feel the healing
hands of God
touch my heart
and kiss my soul.
HARLEY KING When your pockets are empty, go where your heart is full.
DRAGOS BRATASANU I keep my hands empty for the sake of what I have had in them.
ANTONIO PORCHIA It’s genius simmering, perhaps. I’ll let it simmer, and see what comes of it,” he said, with a...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT The dirt is picturesque, so I don't mind.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT I'm afraid I couldn't like him without a spice of human naughtiness.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Jo's ambition was to do something very splendid; what it was she had no idea, as yet, but left it fo...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT When we make little sacrifices we like to have them appreciated, at least…
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT such hours are beautiful to live, but very hard to describe…
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT …I can't help seeing that you are very lonely, and sometimes there is a hungry look in your eyes t...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Now and then, in this workaday world, things do happen in the delightful storybook fashion, and what...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT I hate ordinary people!
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT We live in a beautiful and wonderful world, Demi, and the more you now about it the wiser and the be...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT He thought, or said, or sang, I did not know that I was so empty, to be so full.
PETER S. BEAGLE When your world gets stripped down to nothing you may feel empty and naked—but this is when your s...
JACINTA MPALYENKANA When your world gets stripped down to nothing you may feel empty and naked—but this is when your s...
JACINTA MPALYENKANA 'What? Ridden on a horse?'
'Yes'
'You're using coconuts!'
'What?'
'You've got two em...
MONTY PYTHON Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
WALLIS SIMPSON DUCHESS OF WINDSOR My life was empty and my soul was scourged by my
own sins. Decadent and corrupt I am… I am ev...
E.C. LEMUS I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.
ALICE ROOSEVELT LONGWORTH I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches." by Alice...
CLAUDY CONN My Glass is not half empty, my Glass is not half full, my Glass is Cracked!
SCOTT DOUGLAS CHASE The other man, just as
lonesome as I am
In this empty universe
JACK KEROUAC Is it odd, my love,
that I envy others
who have not met you
for the intoxication t...
KAMAND KOJOURI The Decision

...I wiped my hands on my pinafore
now sullied and stained
not cri...
MUSE A Pause of Thought

I looked for that which is not, nor can be,
And hope defer...
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI Sonnet XXV

Before I loved you, love, nothing was my own:
I wavered through the stre...
PABLO NERUDA These wrinkles are nothing
These gray hairs are nothing,
This stomach which sags
with...
MARK STRAND Envy said, “Girl, I remember well,
ye, who I flung from Hell,
and not a day has passed, ...
A. LEE BROCK I may not be beautiful,
I may not be tall,
I may have no legs,
And be hairy and all.<...
ANTHONY T. HINCKS If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended,
That you have but slumber...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I could think of nothing, nothing to say, nothing to feel. My mind was empty.
S.J. WATSON I have no heart?--Perhaps I have not;
But then you're mad to take offence
That I don't giv...
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI I loved you, I trusted you, but you lied to me, deceived my heart and poisoned my life.
Now I'm...
BLANK TEXT My heart’s been empty since you left - but still I refuse to put up a vacancy sign.
I’m jus...
RANATA SUZUKI They laid their hands upon my head,
They stroked my cheek and brow;
And time could heal a hu...
DOROTHY PARKER The Hopi, an Indian tribe, have a language as sophisticated as ours, but no tenses for past, present...
JEANETTE WINTERSON Be empty of worrying.
Think of who created thought!

Why do you stay in prison
W...
RUMI To my customer:
I may not have the answer, but I'll find it.
I may not have the time, but I'...
ANON. Women known
The way to rear up children (to be just)
They know a simple, merry, tender knack<...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING And I've fallen.

So hard.

I've hit the ground. Gone right through it. Never in...
TAHEREH MAFI You changed the subject."
"From what?"
"The empty-headed girls who think you're sexy."
KHALED HOSSEINI I had spent the day
friendless, lonely and sad,
a stranger to myself.


GULZAR Were I the Moor I would not be Iago.
In following him I follow but myself;
Heaven is my ju...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Some people see the glass half full. Others see it half empty.
I see a glass that's twice as bi...
GEORGE CARLIN THE UNFORGIVEN


Tell me if you've ever had to deal with these kinds of people:
...
SUZY KASSEM A dream so vibrant,
A dream so blissful;
I hold it close to my heart.
In anxious nigh...
SOMYA KEDIA And I want you now
I want you now
I'll feel my heart implode
And I'm breaking out
MUSE I may not always be with you
But when we're far apart
Remember you will be with me
R...
MARC WAMBOLT I’d rather be a heart,
keeping my body alive and well
although I tend to get lost someti...
HKL I found an empty chair
and sat on it
to find myself even emptier.
I found a broken gl...
MUNIA KHAN may my heart always be open to little
birds who are the secrets of living
whatever they si...
E.E. CUMMINGS I like good strong words that mean something…
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

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And he that hath found him hath found a treasure.
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Where thoughts and feelings dwell;
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LOUISA MAY ALCOTT "Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents," grumbled Jo, lying on the rug.
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LOUISA MAY ALCOTT I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT I like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman qu...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction tha...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT I ask not for any crown
But that which all may win;
Nor try to conquer any world
Exce...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT I've got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT I've been so bothered with my property, that I'm tired of it, and don't mean to save up any more, bu...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT I keep turning over new leaves, and spoiling them, as I used to spoil my copybooks; and I make so ma...
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LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Love Jo all your days, if you choose, but don't let it spoil you, for it's wicked to throw away so m...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Where's the use of looking nice, when no one sees me but those cross midgets, and no one cares wheth...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT It’s bad enough to be a girl, anyway, when I like boys’ games and work and manners!
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you und...
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LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any...
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LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up a...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Rome took all the vanity out of me; for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant t...
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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...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT It takes very little fire to make a great deal of smoke nowadays, and notoriety is not real glory.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT I like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman qu...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT She was the first of her kind, ... She was a woman living in a man's world and succeeding in a man's...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT People want to be amused, not preached at, you know. Morals don't sell nowadays.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT I do think that families are the most beautiful things in all the world.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Beth could not reason upon or explain the faith that gave her courage and patience to give up life, ...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, bu...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT A faithful friend is a strong defense; And he that hath found him hath found a treasure.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT The rooms were very still while the pages were softly turned and the winter sunshine crept in to tou...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit sp...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction tha...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT November is the most disagreeable month in the whole year," said Margaret, standing at the window on...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT …because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothi...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT You are the gull, Jo, strong and wild, fond of the storm and the wind, flying far out to sea, and ha...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT There are many Beths in the world, shy and quiet, sitting in corners till needed, and living for oth...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Don't laugh at the spinsters, dear girls, for often very tender, tragic romances are hidden away in ...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you und...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Let us be elegant or die!
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT To be strong, and beautiful, and go round making music all the time. Yes, she could do that, and wit...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Don't try to make me grow up before my time…
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT It’s amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Education is not confined to books, and the finest characters often graduate from no college, but ma...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT I'd rather take coffee than compliments just now.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Nothing provokes speculation more than the sight of a woman enjoying herself." -
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT He was poor, yet always appeared to be giving something away; a stranger, yet everyone was his frien...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT A real gentleman is as polite to a little girl as to a woman.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as yo...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT I think we are all hopelessly flawed.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT I don't pretend to be wise, but I am observing, and I see a great deal more than you'd imagine. I'm ...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Right Jo better be happy old maids than unhappy wives or unmaidenly girls running about to find husb...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Gentlemen, be courteous to the old maids, no matter how poor and plain and prim, for the only chival...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Queen of my tub, I merrily sing,
While the white foam rises high,
And sturdily wash, and r...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT No, dear, but speaking of Father reminded me how much I miss him, how much I owe him, and how faithf...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT …we're twins, and so we love each other more than other people…
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Housekeeping ain't no joke.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT There are plenty to love you so try to be satisfied with Father and Mother, Sisters and Brothers, fr...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT He looked like an Italian, was dressed like an Englishman, and had the independent air of an America...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them but I can look up an...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT ...the words 'we are sisters' went straight to her heart and nestled there.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors!
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LOUISA MAY ALCOTT My definition [of a philosopher] is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding th...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Resolved to take fate by the throat and shake a living out of her
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT I may be strong-minded, but no one can say I'm out of my sphere now, for woman's special mission is ...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT The small hopes and plans and pleasures of children should be tenderly respected by grown-up people,...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Your father, Jo. He never loses patience,--never doubts or complains,--but always hopes, and works a...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Oh, that is the surprise. It's so lovely, I pity you because you don't know it…
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT It’s genius simmering, perhaps. I’ll let it simmer, and see what comes of it,” he said, with a...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT …the child's heart bled when it was broken.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT …proved that woman isn't a half but a whole human being, and can stand alone.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT …she rejoiced as only mothers can in the good fortunes of their children.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT We don't choose our talents; but we needn't hide them in a napkin because they are not just what we ...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT …books are always good company if you have the right sort. Let me pick out some for you.' And Mrs....
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad ...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Mothers can forgive anything! Tell me all, and be sure that I will never let you go, though the whol...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT …the violin — that most human of all instruments…
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT The emerging woman ... will be strong-minded, strong-hearted, strong-souled, and strong-bodied...str...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT The dirt is picturesque, so I don't mind.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT …on some occasions, women, like dreams, go by contraries.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Well, I am happy, and I won't fret, but it does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants…
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT I'm afraid I couldn't like him without a spice of human naughtiness.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Jo's ambition was to do something very splendid; what it was she had no idea, as yet, but left it fo...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT But, like all happiness, it did not last long…
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Dear me! how happy and good we'd be, if we had no worries!
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT …Jo loved a few persons very dearly and dreaded to have their affection lost or lessened in any wa...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT When we make little sacrifices we like to have them appreciated, at least…
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT such hours are beautiful to live, but very hard to describe…
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT …I can't help seeing that you are very lonely, and sometimes there is a hungry look in your eyes t...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Love covers a multitude of sins…
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Now and then, in this workaday world, things do happen in the delightful storybook fashion, and what...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT …she'll go and fall in love, and there's an end of peace and fun, and cozy times together.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT I hate ordinary people!
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT I like adventures, and I’m going to find some.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me…
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT …tomorrow was her birthday, and she was thinking how fast the years went by, how old she was getti...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT I wish I had no heart, it aches so…
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT I think she is growing up, and so begins to dream dreams, and have hopes and fears and fidgets, with...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say no when they mean yes, and drive a man ou...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT I’m not like the rest of you; I never made any plans about what I’d do when I grew up; I never t...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT She preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Every few weeks she would shut herself up in her room, put on her scribbling suit, and fall into a v...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Conceit spoils the finest genius.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT ...the love, respect, and confidence of my children was the sweetest reward I could receive for my e...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow…
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Be worthy love, and love will come.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT I want to do something splendid...something heroic or wonderful that won't be forgotten after I'm de...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Because they are mean is no reason why I should be. I hate such things, and though I think I've a ri...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Watch and pray, dear, never get tired of trying, and never think it is impossible to conquer your fa...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT My child, the troubles and temptations of your life are beginning, and may be many; but you can over...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Your father, Jo. He never loses patience, never doubts or complains, but always hopes, and works and...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT All the worse for the undeniable talent which hides the evil so subtly and makes the danger so delig...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT ... swept into the giddy vortex which keeps so many young people revolving aimlessly, till they go d...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT ... for it is the small temptations which undermine integrity unless we watch and pray and never thi...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT If Mr. Clemens cannot think of something better to tell our pure-minded lads and lasses, he had bett...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT I want to do something splendid…
Something heroic or wonderful that won’t be forgotten afte...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Prosperity suits some people, and they blossom best in a glow of sunshine; others need the shade, an...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Help one another is part of the religion of our sisterhood.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT …the day had been both unprofitable and unsatisfactory, and he was wishing he could live it over a...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Mine first --mine last-- mine even in the grave!
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT When Laurie said 'Good-by', he whispered significantly, "It won't do a bit of good, Jo. My eye is on...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT ...but, dear me, let us be elegant or die.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT You are like a chestnut burr, prickly outside, but silky-soft within, and a sweet kernel, if one can...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Jo's face was a study next day, for the secret rather weighed upon her, and she found it hard not to...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT As to the other three, if they had been perfection they would not have been real girls, and you coul...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT How little it takes to make a young girl happy! A pretty dress, sunshine, and somebody opposite, and...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Boys don't gush, so I can stand it. The last time I let in a party of girls, one fell into my arms a...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have th...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Presently, out from the wrappings came a teapot, which caused her to clasp her hands with delight, f...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT ridicule is often harder to bear than self-denial.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT I want to do something splendid before I go into my castle, something heroic or wonderful that won't...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Human minds are more full of mysteries than any written book and more changeable than the cloud shap...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Good, old-fashioned ways keep hearts sweet, heads sane, hands busy.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT A quick temper, sharp tongue, and restless spirit were always getting her into scrapes, and her life...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT We live in a beautiful and wonderful world, Demi, and the more you now about it the wiser and the be...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT I could have been a great many things.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT I want my daughters to be beautiful, accomplished, and good. To be admired, loved, and respected. To...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT He looked like an Italian, was dressed like an Englishman, and had the independent air of an America...
LOUISA ALCOTT People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for...
LOUISA ALCOTT My definition [of a philosopher] is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding th...
LOUISA ALCOTT I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is the leaving you all. I'm not afraid, but it seem...
LOUISA ALCOTT If Mr. Clemens cannot think of something better to tell our pure-minded lads and lasses, he had bett...
LOUISA ALCOTT I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
LOUISA ALCOTT I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.
LOUISA ALCOTT Rivalry adds so much to the charms of one's conquests
LOUISA ALCOTT Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction tha...
LOUISA ALCOTT Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors!
LOUISA ALCOTT My occupation is solely that of a painter. No one can argue with pictures (re descriptions in Uncle ...
LOUISA MAE ALCOTT Housekeeping ain't no joke.
LOUIS MAY ALCOTT