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Thinking Quotes by Louisa May Alcott

23 Thinking quotes by Louisa May Alcott

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Louisa May Alcott’s reflections on the mind carry the same earnest spirit you find in her beloved stories. In these 23 lines she balances gentle encouragement with a quiet strength, urging readers to trust their inner voice. It’s a modest but heartfelt glimpse into how she viewed thought as a guide through life’s twists and turns.

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

Louisa May Alcott

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I think we are all hopelessly flawed.

Louisa May Alcott

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I think she is growing up, and so begins to dream dreams, and have hopes and fears and fidgets, without knowing why…

Louisa May Alcott

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I often think flowers are the angels' alphabet whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious and beautiful lessons for us to…

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I don't think it's fair for some girls to have plenty of pretty things, and other girls nothing at all.

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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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My book came out; and people began to think that topsy-turvy Louisa would amount to something after all.

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I was thinking what a curious thing love is; only a sentiment, and yet it has power to make fools of men…

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

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Our actions are in our own hands, but the consequences of them are not. Remember that, my dear, and think twice before…

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I think immortality is the passing of a soul through many lives or experiences, and such as are truly lived, used and…

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And when they went away, leaving comfort behind, I think there were not in all the city four merrier people than the…

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Because they are mean is no reason why I should be. I hate such things, and though I think I've a right…

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…tomorrow was her birthday, and she was thinking how fast the years went by, how old she was getting, and how little…

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I've neither beauty, money, nor rank, yet every foolish boy mistakes my frank interest for something warmer, and makes me miserable. It…

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Money is a needful and precious thing, and when well used, a noble thing, but I never want you to think it…

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I'd have a stable full of Arabian steeds, rooms piled with books, and I'd write out of a magic inkstand, so that…

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When Jo's conservative sister Meg says she must turn up her hair now that she is a "young lady," Jo shouts, "I'm…

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If people really want to go, and really try all their lives, I think they will get in; for I don't believe…

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Watch and pray, dear, never get tired of trying, and never think it is impossible to conquer your fault.

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I don't think secrets agree with me, I feel rumpled up in mind since you told me that…

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I think this power of living in our children is one of the sweetest things in the world…

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... for it is the small temptations which undermine integrity unless we watch and pray and never think them too trivial to…

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“Chance words spoken in kindness often help amazingly; and that's what old people are here for -- else their experience is of little use.”

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“Tired of my own company, I suppose, now I've seen so much better.”

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Oft in the silence of the night, When the lonely moon rides high, When wintry winds are whistling, And we hear the owl's shrill…

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But buds will be roses, and kittens, cats - more's the pity.

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“I'll try and be what he loves to call me, 'a little woman' and not be rough and wild, but do my duty here…

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