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Us Quotes by Louisa May Alcott
- Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us - and those around us…
- Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.
- I like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman question. Whatever we can do…
- Beth could not reason upon or explain the faith that gave her courage and patience to give up life, and cheerfully wait for death. Like…
- I believe that it is as much a right and duty for women to do something with their lives as for men and we are…
- If we are all alive ten years hence, let's meet, and see how many of us have got our wishes, or how much nearer we…
- ...and clung more closely to the dear human love, from which our Father never means us to be weaned, but through which He draws us…
- Let us be elegant or die! --Amy
- Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the…
- Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.
- There is very little real liberty in the world; even those who seem freest are often the most tightly bound. Law, custom, public opinion, fear…
- Meg's high-heeled slippers were dreadfully tight, and hurt her, though she would not own it; and Jo's nineteen hair-pins all seemed stuck straight into her…
- …often between ourselves and those nearest and dearest to us there exists a reserve which it is very hard to overcome.
- Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic.
- One of the sweet things about pain and sorrow is that they show us how well we are loved, how much kindness there is in…
- We can't any of us do all we would like, but we can do our best for every case that comes to us, and that…
- Many wise and true sermons are preached us everyday by unconscious ministers in street, school, office, or home; even a fair table may become a…
More Us Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong