Louisa May Alcott: Quotes about love

“Love is a flower that grows in any soil, works its sweet miracles undaunted by autumn frost or winter snow, blooming fair and fragrant all the year, and blessing those who give and those who receive.”

“It’s amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them.”

“Love Jo all your days, if you choose, but don't let it spoil you, for it's wicked to throw away so many good gifts because you can't have the one you want.”

“Love is a great beautifier.”

“… for love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride.”

“Be worthy love, and love will come.”

“… the love, respect, and confidence of my children was the sweetest reward I could receive for my efforts to be the woman I would have them copy.”

“Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can”

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

“life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.”

“… and Jo laid the rustling sheets together with a careful hand, as one might shut the covers of a lovely romance, which holds the reader fast till the end comes, and he finds himself alone in the work-a-day world again.”

“You have grown abominably lazy, and you like gossip, and waste time on frivolous things, you are contented to be petted and admired by silly people, instead of being loved and respected by wise ones.”

“The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.”

“I love my liberty too well to be in a hurry to give it up for any mortal man.”

“You are like a chestnut burr, prickly outside, but silky-soft within, and a sweet kernel, if one can only get at it. Love will make you show your heart some day, and then the rough burr will fall off.”

“…she'll go and fall in love, and there's an end of peace and fun, and cozy times together.”

“…we're twins, and so we love each other more than other people…”

“He was the first, the only love her life, and in a nature like hers such passions take deep root and die-hard.”

“Love covers a multitude of sins…”