Louisa May Alcott Quotes

They go forth [into the world] with well-developed bodies, fairly developed minds and undeveloped hearts. An undeveloped heart - not a cold one. The difference is important.

The heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head.

I was a sensitive kid.

I'm sensitive. I'm proud of being sensitive. I'm proud of being empathetic.

I do have a bit of empathy I suppose, but it has come more recently as I'm knocking on 30's door and I think I'm getting there.

Your education tends to develop the brain while it neglects the heart, so you have a longing for teachings that develop and strengthen the good heart.

He who can not learn to love must flatter.

Women's eyes are rapid in detecting a heart which is ill at ease with itself, and, knowing the value of sympathy, and finding their own greatest happiness not in receiving it, but in giving it, with them to be unhappy is at once to be interesting.

It's okay to put your heart on your sleeve. Okay to have that softer side - the softer side in the sense of being able to listen, to deal with fear, to not always be so dominant.

It doesn’t matter how strong or capable you are; if you don’t have a big heart, you will not succeed.

You learn to love by loving.

He who's never loved cannot be good.

I was a self-centered bore. I was masochistic, and only thought I was happy. When I woke up and said, "there must be something wrong with me", I grew up. Because I never understood myself, how could I hope to understand anyone else? That's why I can truly say that now I can give a woman love for the first time in my life, because I can understand her.

It is not until you have the courage to engage in human relationships that you grow.

Nature, in giving tears to man, confessed that he Had a tender heart; this is our noblest quality.

There are no events but thoughts and the heart's hard turning, the heart's slow learning where to love and whom. The rest is merely gossip, and tales for other times.

If love makes you sad, you acquire a little depth, a little compassion. If it makes you happy, you learn how to be joyous. Every relationship should color your soul to a certain degree, don't you think? Every friendship, every love affair - each one should build up the chambers of your heart the way a sea creature builds the chamber of his shell.

A good book is an education of the heart.

That's just the point: an honest and sensitive man opens his heart, and the man of business goes on eating - and then he eats you up.

True education consists in the cultivation of the heart.

A carefully cultivated heart will, assisted by the grace of God, foresee, forestall, or transform most of the painful situations before which others stand like helpless children saying “Why?

Oh well, perhaps when you're my age you'll know the heart is an untrustworthy beast.The mind too,but it doesn't talk about love.

Sometimes I forget that I can hurt you. That you are capable of being hurt

Nothing has saddened me so much in life as the hardness of heart of educated people.

I have become so great as I am because I have won men's hearts by gentleness and kindliness.