“Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.”

— Louisa May Alcott, Little Women (1868), Ch. 40

About Louisa May Alcott

1832 – 1888

American novelist, author of "Little Women".

“Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.”

“I can't give her money, but I can teach her; so I do, and she is the most promising pupil I have.”

“Help one another, is part of the religion of our sisterhood, Fan.”

“You are imperfect, you are wired for struggle, but you are also worthy of love and belonging.”

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“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”

“And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”

“Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.”

“'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”

“One often calms one's grief by recounting it.”