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| 5c21d21 | Why shouldn't our "great chain of being" include the other creatures with which we have shared the planet, the creatures we have martyred in service to us or driven out of their homes to make way for our expansion?" | Barbara Ehrenreich | ||
| 1514520 | If there is a lesson here it has to do with humility. For all our vaunted intelligence and complexity, we are not the sole authors of our destinies or of anything else. You may exercise diligently, eat a medically fashionable diet, and still die of a sting from an irritated bee. You may be a slim, toned paragon of wellness, and still a macrophage within your body may decide to throw in its lot with an incipient tumor. | destinies humility intelligence | Barbara Ehrenreich | |
| 254c9c3 | Purge everyone who "brings you down," and you risk being very lonely or, what is worse, cut off from reality." | Barbara Ehrenreich | ||
| 220a66f | In today's world, other people have become an obstacle to our individual pursuits. | Barbara Ehrenreich | ||
| 1b5e82a | According to Wal-Mart expert Bob Ortega, Sam Walton got the idea for the cheer on a 1975 trip to Japan, "where he was deeply impressed by factory workers doing group calisthenics and company cheers." Ortega describes Walton conducting a cheer: "'Gimme a W!' he'd shout. 'W!' the workers would shout back, and on through the Wal-Mart name. At the hyphen, Walton would shout 'Gimme a squiggly!' and squat and twist his hips at the same time; the .. | Barbara Ehrenreich | ||
| 6cd9b10 | The most flattering spin I can put on this phase of paradoxes and metaphysical tangles is that I was smart enough, at age fourteen, to destroy any fledgling hypothesis I came up with. A tentative explanation, theory, or formulation would pop up in my brain only to be attacked by what amounted to a kind of logical immune system, bent on eliminating all that was weak or defective. Which is to say that my mind had become a scene of furious pre.. | metaphysics philosophy rationality | Barbara Ehrenreich | |
| bbfff2a | tras las nubes siempre llega la luz. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 5d4a276 | Here, my man, just hold it this way, while I look into it a bit," he said one day to Fitz G., putting a wounded arm into the keeping of a sound one, and proceeding to poke about among bits of bone and visible muscles, in a red and black chasm made by some infernal machine of the shot or shell description. Poor Fitz held on like a grim Death, ashamed to show fear before a woman, till it grew more than he could bear in silence; and, after a f.. | civil-war-narrative | Louisa May Alcott | |
| 845f61b | I know I do--teaching those tiresome children nearly all day, when I'm longing to enjoy myself at home," began Meg, in the complaining tone again." | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 6494761 | July had come, and haying begun; the little gardens were doing finely and the long summer days were full of pleasant hours. The house stood open from morning till night, and the lads lived out of doors, except at school time. The lessons were short, and there were many holidays, for the Bhaers believed in cultivating healthy bodies by much exercise, and our short summers are best used in out-of-door work. Such a rosy, sunburnt, hearty set a.. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| b6eb226 | I wonder if you know just what it means to pious? | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 8a871da | I want to do something splendid... something heroic or wonderful that won't be forgotten after I'm dead. I don't know what, but I'm on the watch for it, and mean to astonish you all someday. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 83b448f | For 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. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| d7386da | I don't think it's fair for some girls to have plenty of pretty things, and other girls nothing at all," added little Amy, with an injured sniff." | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 3f7897f | Oh, don't I wish I could manage things for you as I do for my heroines! You're pretty enough and good enough already, so I'd have some rich relation leave you a fortune unexpectedly; then you'd dash out as an heiress, scorn everyone who has slighted you, go abroad, and como home my Lady Something in a blaze of splendor and elegance. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| a3dbbc1 | Pilgrims | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| ad92b25 | A kiss for a blow is always best, though it's not very easy to give it sometimes. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 68a6050 | Rome took all the vanity out of me,for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live, and gave up all my foolish hopes in dispare. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 7444403 | grumbled | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 9f27bae | The joys come close upon the sorrows this time, and I rather think the changes have begun,' said Mrs March. 'In most families there comes, now and then, a year full of events; this has been such an one, but it ends well, after all. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 2d00161 | As to the other three, if they had been perfection they would not have been real girls, and you could not have wept over their trials and laughed over their pleasures. | sisters tears | Louisa May Alcott | |
| 640ec08 | Four little chests all in a row, Dim with dust, and worn by time, Four women, taught by weal and woe To love and labor in their prime. " -- "Four sisters, parted for an hour, None lost, one only gone before, Made by love's immortal power, Nearest and dearest evermore." | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 867b999 | There are no words that can be said to justify the beauty of a bride walking down the aisle in anticipation of sharing the rest of her life with the man she esteems and loves the most, nor of the look on that man's face, when he beholds the one who will be entrusting her life to him to protect and her heart for him to love. All that can be said is that all who witnessed it found themselves overwhelmed with the joy that comes with seeing tha.. | marriage wedding wedding-quotes | Trix Wilkins | |
| 5cc895a | Yes, Phebe was herself now, and it showed in the change that came over her at the first note of music. No longer shy and silent, no longer the image of a handsome girl, but a blooming woman, alive and full of the eloquence her art gave her, as she laid her hands softly together, fixed her eye on the light, and just poured out her song as simply and joyfully as the lark does soaring toward the sun. "My faith, Alec! that's the sort of voice.. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 9c3e7fb | Nobody spoke for a minute; then Meg said in an altered tone, "You know the reason Mother proposed not having any presents this Christmas was because it is going to be a hard winter for everyone; and she thinks we ought not to spend money for pleasure, when our men are suffering so in the army. We can't do much, but we can make our little sacrifices, and ought to do it gladly. But I am afraid I don't," and Meg shook her head, as she thought .. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| ac6e788 | a principle that can't bear being laughed at, frowned on, and cold-shouldered, is n't worthy of the name. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| dfea6d4 | Occasionally a matrimonial epidemic appears, especially toward spring, devastating society, thinning the ranks of bachelordom, and leaving mothers lamenting for their fairest daughters. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| eea0713 | My idea is that if we girls have any influence we should use it for the good of these boys, and not pamper them up, making slaves of ourselves and tyrants of them. Let them prove what they can do and be before they ask anything of us, and give us a chance to do the same. Then we know where we are, and shall not make mistakes to mourn over all our lives. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 5ae76e7 | I know I ought to be contented, but I'm not. My life is very comfortable, but so quiet and uneventful, I get tired of it and want to launch out as the others have, and do something, or at least try. ... I'd like to know what my gift is," said Rose .... "The art of living for others so patiently and sweetly that we enjoy it as we do the sunshine, and are not half grateful enough for the great blessing." [said Uncle Alec.]" | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| d24c5cd | My dear, don't let the sun go down upon your anger - forgive each other, help each other and begin again tomorrow. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| c33ddcc | I never thought I should like to wash dishes, but I do," said Rose, as she sat in a boat after supper lazily rinsing plates in the sea, and rocking luxuriously as she wiped them." | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 87b2380 | Well, I won't, but I hate to see things going all crisscross and getting snarled up, when a pull here and a snip there would straighten it out. I wish wearing flatirons on our heads would keep us from growing up. But buds will be roses, and kittens cats, more's the pity! | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 61eba7c | So you see [the act of teaching] teaches me also, and is as good as a general review of what I've learned, in a pleasanter way than going over it alone. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| c6e6eaa | Being a domestic man, John decidedly missed the wifely attentions he had been accustomed to receive, but as he adored his babies, he cheerfully relinquished his comfort for a time, supposing with masculine ignorance that peace would soon be restored. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 416007c | But young as she was, Jo had learned that hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally, so though she believed she knew the cause of Beth's new pain, she only said, in her tenderest tone, "Does anything trouble you, deary?" | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 39a9b45 | Do you think Meg cares for him?" asked Mrs. March, with an anxious look. "Mercy me! I don't know anything about love and such nonsense!" cried Jo, with a funny mixture of interest and contempt. "In novels, the girls show it by starting and blushing, fainting away, growing thin, and acting like fools. Now Meg does not do anything of the sort. She eats and drinks and sleeps like a sensible creature." | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 9346665 | for love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy." "I'll try, Beth." And" | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| a199cd9 | Finish it if you choose only remember, my girl, that one may read at forty what is unsafe at twenty, and that we never can be too careful what food we give that precious yet perilous thing called imagination. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 5843928 | Be worthy, love, and love will come, | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 4befd04 | Jo examined the work of art nearest her, idly wondering what fortuitous concatenation of circumstances needed the melodramatic illustration of an Indian in full war costume, tumbling over a precipice with a wolf at his throat, while two infuriated young gentlemen, with unnaturally small feet and big eyes, were stabbing each other close by, and a disheveled female was flying away in the background | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| b36b2c1 | Help one another," was a favorite Plumfield motto, and Nat learned how much sweetness is added to life by trying to live up to it." | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 8fcb19f | El amor expulsa al miedo y la gratitud doblega al orgullo. | mujercitas | Louisa May Alcott | |
| 25c4cc1 | Then let me advise you to take up your little burdens again, for though they seem heavy sometimes, they are good for us, and lighten as we learn to carry them. Work is wholesome, and there is plenty for everyone. It keeps us from ennui and mischief, is good for health and spirits, and gives us a sense of power and independence better than money or fashion." "We'll" | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 2a5b07e | Margaret, the eldest of the four, was sixteen, and very pretty, being plump and fair, with large eyes, plenty of soft brown hair, a sweet mouth, and white hands, of which she was rather vain. Fifteen-year-old Jo was very tall, thin, and brown, and reminded one of a colt, for she never seemed to know what to do with her long limbs, which were very much in her way. She had a decided mouth, a comical nose, and sharp, gray eyes, which appeared .. | Louisa May Alcott |