Louisa May Alcott Heart Quotations

Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us - and those around us - more effectively. Look for the learning.

...the words 'we are sisters' went straight to her heart and nestled there.

Jo had learned that hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally…

…books are always good company if you have the right sort. Let me pick out some for you.' And Mrs. Jo made a bee-line to the well-laden shelves, which were the joy of her heart and the comfort of her life.

Every few weeks she would shut herself up in her room, put on her scribbling suit, and fall into a vortex, as she expressed it, writing away at her novel with all her heart and soul, for till that was finished she could find no peace.

Good, old-fashioned ways keep hearts sweet, heads sane, hands busy.

We've got minds and souls as well as hearts; ambition and talents as well as beauty and accomplishments; and we want to live and learn as well as love and be loved. I'm sick of being told that is all a woman is fit for! I won't have anything to do with love until I prove that I am something beside a housekeeper and a baby-tender!

For the wise old man was universally beloved, and ministered so beautifully to his flock that many of them thanked him all their lives for the help given to both hearts and souls.

Young people think they never can change, but they do in the most wonderful manner, and very few die of broken hearts.

It takes so little to make a child happy, that it is a pity in a world full of sunshine and pleasant things, that there should be any wistful faces, empty hands, or lonely little hearts.

For with eyes made clear by many tears, and a heart softened by the tenderest sorrow, she recognized the beauty of her sister's life—uneventful, unambitious, yet full of the genuine virtues which 'smell sweet, and blossom in the dust', the self-forgetfulness that makes the humblest on earth remembered soonest in heaven, the true success which is possible to all.

They were enjoying the happy hour that seldom comes but once in any life, the magical moment which bestows youth on the old, beauty on the plain, wealth on the poor, and gives human hearts a foretaste of heaven.

Where the heart is the mind works best.

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

Jo's breath gave out here, and wrapping her head in the paper, she bedewed her little story with a few natural tears, for to be independent and earn the praise of those she loved were the dearest wishes of her heart, and this seemed to be the first step toward that happy end.

The young people were playing that still more absorbing game in which hearts are always trumps.

Laurie felt just then that his heart was entirely broken and the world a howling wilderness.

I have nothing to give but my heart so full and these empty hands." "They're not empty now.

I wish I had no heart, it aches so…

…I can't help seeing that you are very lonely, and sometimes there is a hungry look in your eyes that goes to my heart.

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