Quotes from Louisa May Alcott

The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.

Love is a flower that grows in any soil, works its sweet miracles undaunted by autumn frost or winter snow, blooming fair and fragrant all the year, and blessing those who give and those who receive.

He was the first, the only love her life, and in a nature like hers such passions take deep root and die-hard.

Honesty is the best policy, in love as in law.

We're twins, and so we love each other more than other people.

It takes two flints to make a fire.

…she'll go and fall in love, and there's an end of peace and fun, and cozy times together.

...for love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride.

Love scenes, if genuine, are indescribable; for to those who have enacted them the most elaborate description seems tame, and to those who have not, the simplest picture seems overdone.

I'm tired of praise; and love is very sweet, when it is simple and sincere like this.

Beth ceased to fear him from that moment, and sat there talking to him as cozily as if she had known him all her life, for love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride.

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

where I wholly love I wholly trust.

...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 closer to Himself.

Cheerfulness can change misfortune into love and friends.

I put in my list all the busy, useful independent spinsters I know, for liberty is a better husband than love to many of us.

Rule yourself. Love your neighbor. Do the duty that lies nearest you.

To marry without love betrays as surely as to love without marriage.

Liberty is a better husband than love to many of us.

Love is a beautifier.

I did fail, say what you will, for Jo wouldn't love me.

I never knew how much like heaven this world could be, when two people love and live for one another!

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

Housekeeping ain't no joke.