Heart Quotes by Louisa May Alcott

...a capital patient, as she never died and never got well.

— Louisa May Alcott

Where the heart is the mind works best.

— Louisa May Alcott

“…the child's heart bled when it was broken.”

— Louisa May Alcott

I wish I had no heart, it aches so…

— Louisa May Alcott

She fell into the moody, miserable state of mind which often comes when strong wills have to yield to the inevitable.

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Head, you may think; heart, you may feel; But hand, you shall work alway!

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So she enjoyed herself heartily, and found, what isn't always the case, that her granted wish was all she had hoped.

— Louisa May Alcott

Jo had learned that hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally…

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…I can't help seeing that you are very lonely, and sometimes there is a hungry look in your eyes that goes to…

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Young people think they never can change, but they do in the most wonderful manner, and very few die of broken hearts.

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The patience and the humility of the face she loved so well was a better lesson to Jo than the wisest lecture,…

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“(...) replied Mrs. March, who took peculiar pleasure in granting Beth's requests because she so seldom asked anything for herself.”

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…books are always good company if you have the right sort. Let me pick out some for you.' And Mrs. Jo made…

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You are like a chestnut burr, prickly outside, but silky-soft within, and a sweet kernel, if one can only get at it.…

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Every few weeks she would shut herself up in her room, put on her scribbling suit, and fall into a vortex, as…

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Jo's breath gave out here, and wrapping her head in the paper, she bedewed her little story with a few natural tears,…

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They were enjoying the happy hour that seldom comes but once in any life, the magical moment which bestows youth on the…

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“Poor Meg seldom complained, but a sense of injustice made her feel bitter toward everyone sometimes, for she had not yet learned…

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“Jo couldn’t even lose her heart in a decorous manner, but sternly tried to quench her feelings, and failing to do so,…

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Back to him she would never go, but in her lonely life still lived the sweet memory of that happy time when…

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To be strong, and beautiful, and go round making music all the time. Yes, she could do that, and with a very…

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We've got minds and souls as well as hearts; ambition and talents as well as beauty and accomplishments; and we want to…

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For with eyes made clear by many tears, and a heart softened by the tenderest sorrow, she recognized the beauty of her…

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“Jo’s ambition was to do something very splendid; what it was she had no idea as yet, but left it for time…

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The girls gave their hearts into their mother's keeping-their souls into their father's; and to both parents, who lived and labored so…

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Beth could not reason upon or explain the faith that gave her courage and patience to give up life, and cheerfully wait…

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“…growing pale and sober with the thought that her fate was soon to be decided; for, like all young people, she was…

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Don't laugh at the spinsters, dear girls, for often very tender, tragic romances are hidden away in the hearts that beat so…

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The young people were playing that still more absorbing game in which hearts are always trumps.

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To me, love isn't all. I must look up, not down, trust and honor with my whole heart, and find strenght and…

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“...she discovered that her feet were cold, her head ached, and that her heart was colder than the former, fuller of pain…

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Laurie felt just then that his heart was entirely broken and the world a howling wilderness.

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I have nothing to give but my heart so full and these empty hands." "They're not empty now.

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It takes so little to make a child happy, that it is a pity in a world full of sunshine and pleasant…

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A child her wayward pencil drew On margins of her book; Garlands of flower, dancing elves, Bud, butterfly, and brook, Lessons undone,…

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She preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up in the tin kitchen…

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For the wise old man was universally beloved, and ministered so beautifully to his flock that many of them thanked him all…

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Beth ceased to fear him from that moment, and sat there talking to him as cozily as if she had known him…

— Louisa May Alcott