Quotes About Growth

Make this home happy, so that you may be fit for homes of your own

the uncomfortable appearance of a girl who was rapidly shooting up into a woman and didn't like it.

Louisa May Alcott

Yes, I remember, but the life I wanted then seems selfish, lonely, and cold to me now. I haven't given up the hope that may write a good book yet, but I can wait, and I'm sure it will be the better for such experiences and illustrations as these

Very tough, but it is that very struggle with obstacles which does us good. Things have been made easy for you in many ways, but no one can do everything. You must paddle your own canoe now, and learn to avoid the rapids and steer straight to the port you want to reach. I don't know just what your temptations will be for you have no bad habits and seem to love music so well, nothing can lure you from it. I only hope you won't work too hard.

My castle is very different from what I planned, but I would not alter it...

It's my dreadful temper! I try to cure it, I think I have, and then it breaks out worse than ever. Oh, mother, what shall I do? What shall I do?" "Watch and pray, dear, never get tired of trying, and never think it is impossible to conquer your fault.

Finish it if you choose only remember, my girl, that one may read at forty what is unsafe at twenty, and that we never can be too careful what food we give that precious yet perilous thing called imagination.

Poor Jo tried desperately to be good, but her bosom enemy was always ready to flame up and defeat her, and it took years of patient effort to subdue it.

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 faithfully for them, they gave a love that grew with their growth and bound them tenderly together by the sweetest tie which blesses life and outlives death.

But young as she was, Jo had learned that hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally…

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 instead of wanting to be somewhere else, said Jo

Here's Meg married and a mamma, Amy flourishing away at Paris, and Beth in love. I'm the only one that has sense enough to keep out of mischief.

And Jo felt as if during that fortnight her sister had grown up amazingly, and was drifting away from her into a world where she could not follow.

now with new paint, added wings, well-kept lawn and

they gave a love that grew with their growth and bound them tenderly together by the sweetest tie which blesses life and outlives death.

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

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

Make this home happy, so that you may be fit for homes of your own if they are offered you, and contented here if they are not.

I rather miss my wild girl; but if I get a strong, helpful, tender-hearted woman in her place, I shall feel quite satisfied.

What would Jo say if she saw you now? asked Amy impatiently

Jo's angles are much softened, she has learned to carry herself with ease, if not grace.

Sé que no habrán olvidado lo que les dije antes de marchar, que se mostrarán cariñosas contigo, cumplirán con su deber, combatirán a sus propios demonios y saldrán adelante, de modo que cuando vuelva estaré más orgulloso que nunca de mis mujercitas.

we must each be what God and nature makes us. We can't change it much--only help to develop the good and control the bad elements in us.