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

Go on with your work as usual, for work is a blessed solace.

Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow.

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 moment Aunt March took her nap, or was busy with company, Jo hurried to this quiet place, and curling herself up in the easy chair, devoured poetry, romance, history, travels, and pictures like a regular bookworm.

…she was one of those happily created beings who please without effort, make friends everywhere, and take life so gracefully and easily that less fortunate souls are tempted to believe that such are born under a lucky star.

She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.