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Where the heart is the mind works best.

Where the heart is the mind works best.

Louisa May Alcott
Heart, Mind
Louisa May Alcott (2015). “The Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated): Novels, Short Stories, Plays & Poems: Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men, Jo's Boys, A Modern Mephistopheles, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Jack and Jill, Behind a Mask, The Abbot's Ghost…”, p.892, e-artnow

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.

Louisa May Alcott
Lonely, Children, Heart
Louisa May Alcott (2015). “Little Men”, p.41, Xist Publishing

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

Louisa May Alcott
Flower, Heart
Louisa May Alcott (2015). “Louisa May Alcott Premium Edition - 16 Novels in One Volume: Little Women Trilogy & Other Novels (Illustrated): Moods, The Mysterious Key and What It Opened, An Old Fashioned Girl, Work, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Under the Lilacs, Jack and Jill, Behind a Mask, The Abbot's Ghost, A Modern Mephistopheles…”, p.669, e-artnow

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!

Louisa May Alcott
Baby, Heart, Ambition
Louisa May Alcott (2014). “Work: A Story of Experience: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.706, Library of America

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.

Louisa May Alcott
Fall, Writing, Heart
Louisa May Alcott (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated)”, p.469, Delphi Classics

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

Louisa May Alcott
Heart, Games, People
Louisa May Alcott (2015). “LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Ultimate Collection: 16 Novels & 150+ Short Stories, Plays and Poems (Illustrated): Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men, Jo's Boys, A Modern Mephistopheles, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Jack and Jill, Behind a Mask, Lulu's Library, The Abbot's Ghost, A Garland for Girls…”, p.2417, e-artnow

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

Louisa May Alcott
Heart, Thinking, People
Louisa May Alcott (2015). “Jo's Boys, and How They Turned Out: A Sequel to "Little Men"”, p.85, Booklassic

…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.

Louisa May Alcott
Lonely, Heart, Eye
Louisa May Alcott, Daniel Shealy (2013). “Little Women: An Annotated Edition”, p.537, Harvard University Press

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.

Louisa May Alcott
Heart, Independent, Wish
Louisa May Alcott (2015). “LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Ultimate Collection: 16 Novels & 150+ Short Stories, Plays and Poems (Illustrated): Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men, Jo's Boys, A Modern Mephistopheles, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Jack and Jill, Behind a Mask, Lulu's Library, The Abbot's Ghost, A Garland for Girls…”, p.472, e-artnow

…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.

Louisa May Alcott
Book, Heart, Joy
Louisa May Alcott (2015). “LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Ultimate Collection: 16 Novels & 150+ Short Stories, Plays and Poems (Illustrated): Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men, Jo's Boys, A Modern Mephistopheles, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Jack and Jill, Behind a Mask, Lulu's Library, The Abbot's Ghost, A Garland for Girls…”, p.1200, e-artnow

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

Louisa May Alcott
Sweet, Heart, Hands

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

Louisa May Alcott
Integrity, Heart, Strenght
Louisa May Alcott (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated)”, p.1736, Delphi Classics

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.

Louisa May Alcott
Sweet, Heart, Eye
Louisa May Alcott (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated)”, p.586, Delphi Classics

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.

Louisa May Alcott
Heart, Giving, Heaven
Louisa May Alcott, O. Henry, Mark Twain, Beatrix Potter (2015). “Christmas Classics Premium Collection: 150+ Novels, Stories & Poems in One Volume (Illustrated): A Christmas Carol, The Gift of the Magi, Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, The Heavenly Christmas Tree, Little Women, The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, The Wonderful Life of Christ…”, p.4340, e-artnow

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

Louisa May Alcott
Heart, Thinking, Hands
Louisa May Alcott (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated)”, p.381, Delphi Classics

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.

Louisa May Alcott
Wise, Heart, Men
Louisa May Alcott (2015). “The Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated): Novels, Short Stories, Plays & Poems: Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men, Jo's Boys, A Modern Mephistopheles, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Jack and Jill, Behind a Mask, The Abbot's Ghost…”, p.1139, e-artnow

I wish I had no heart, it aches so.

Louisa May Alcott
Heart, Wish, Ache
Louisa May Alcott (2014). “Little Women”, p.197, Trajectory Inc

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

Louisa May Alcott
Heart, Broken, World
Louisa May Alcott (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated)”, p.549, Delphi Classics

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

Louisa May Alcott
Heart, Hands, Giving

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