Frases de Louisa May Alcott

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“Não tenho medo de tempestades, pois estou aprendendo a navegar meu barco.”

“Prefiro tomar café do que elogios agora mesmo.


Spanish:
1 Preeriría tomar café que cumplidos en estos momentos.
2 Mejor tomaría café que cumplidos”

“Nos objetivos de sua vida, mire e tente acertar a lua. Se não conseguir, ficará entre as estrelas.”

“Ao longe, lá no brilho do sol, estão minhas mais sublimes aspirações. Posso não alcançá-las, mas consigo olhar para o alto e ver suas belezas, acreditar nelas, e tentar seguir por onde elas me guiam.”

“Bem longe, lá na luz do sol estão minhas mais altas aspirações. Talvez eu nunca as alcance, mas posso olhar para cima e ver sua beleza, acreditar nelas e tentar seguir para onde apontam”

“Não tenho medo das tempestades porque sei como guiar meu navio.”

“Longe, sob o sol, estão minhas mais elevadas aspirações. Talvez não as alcance, mas posso ver sua beleza, crer nelas e procurar seguir seu rumo.”

“Não tenho medo de tempestades, pois elas me ensinam a navegar.”

“O verdadeiro professor defende os alunos contra sua própria influência de mestre.”

“Bons livros são como bons amigos: são poucos e estão todos escolhidos.”

“Lá longe na luz do sol, estão as minhas maiores aspirações. Pode ser que eu não as alcance, mas posso olhar para o alto e ver a beleza delas, acreditar nelas, e tentar seguir na direção delas.”

“You don’t need scores of suitors. You need only one… if he’s the right one.”

“I keep turning over new leaves, and spoiling them, as I used to spoil my copybooks; and I make so many beginnings there never will be an end. (Jo March)”

“You are the gull, Jo, strong and wild, fond of the storm and the wind, flying far out to sea, and happy all alone.”

“… 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.”

“Conceit spoils the finest genius.”

“…because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing.”

“Better lose your life than your soul…”

“Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents”

“Watch and pray, dear, never get tired of trying, and never think it is impossible to conquer your fault.”

“Because they are mean is no reason why I should be. I hate such things, and though I think I've a right to be hurt, I don't intend to show it. (Amy March)”

“The emerging woman… will be strong-minded, strong-hearted, strong-souled, and strong-bodied… strength and beauty must go together.”

“Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the only riches we can take out of this world with us.”

“Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.”

“A real gentleman is as polite to a little girl as to a woman.”

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

“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.”

“That is a good book it seems to me, which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.”

“I don't pretend to be wise, but I am observing, and I see a great deal more than you'd imagine. I'm interested in other people's experiences and inconsistencies, and, though I can't explain, I remember and use them for my own benefit.”

“She preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up in the tin kitchen till called for, and the latter were less manageable.”

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

“Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say no when they mean yes, and drive a man out of his wits just for the fun of it.”

“I think she is growing up, and so begins to dream dreams, and have hopes and fears and fidgets, without knowing why or being able to explain them.”

“Laurie, you're an angel! How shall I ever thank you?"
"Fly at me again. I rather liked it," said Laurie, looking
mischievous, a thing he had not done for a fortnight.”

“Wouldn't it be fun if all the castles in the air which we make could come true and we could live in them?”

“Life is like college; may I graduate and earn some honors.”

“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.”

“Nothing is impossible to a determined woman.”

“A quick temper, sharp tongue, and restless spirit were always getting her into scrapes, and her life was a series of ups and downs, which were both comic and pathetic.”

“I could have been a great many things.”