897 Quotes by Louisa May Alcott

If people really want to go, and really try all their lives, I think they will get in; for I don't believe there are any locks on that door, or any guards at the gate. I always imagine it is as it is in the picture, where the shining ones stretch out their hands to welcome poor Christian as he comes up from the river.

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

What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?

I think immortality is the passing of a soul through many lives or experiences, and such as are truly lived, used and learned, help on to the next, each growing richer, happier and higher, carrying with it only the real memories of what has gone before.

All is fish that comes to the literary net. Goethe puts his joys and sorrows into poems, I turn my adventures into bread and butter.

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

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

Rome took all the vanity out of me; for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live, and gave up all my foolish hopes in despair.

...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.