#little

…marriage, they say, halves one's rights and doubles one's duties. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#louisa-may-alcott #marriage #marriage

It takes so little to make a child happy, that it is a pity in a world full of sunshine and pleasant things, that there should be any wistful faces, empty hands, or lonely little hearts. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#little-men #louisa-may-alcott #men

…and Aunt Jo retired, satisfied with the success of her last trap to catch a sunbeam. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#louisa-may-alcott #men

Whatever comes," she said, "cannot alter one thing. If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be a princess inside. It would be easy to be a princess if I were dressed in cloth of gold, but it is a great deal more of a triumph to be one all the time when no one knows it. ↗

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

#frances-hodgson-burnett #inspirational #princess #inspirational

If nature has made you for a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart; and though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that--warm things, kind things, sweet things--help and comfort and laughter--and sometimes gay, kind laughter is the best help of all. ↗

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

#frances-hodgson-burnett #giver #inspirational #inspirational

Got your fingerprints as evidence all on my body Put your right hand on the book and you were found guilty I can’t wait forever but that’s how it’s gonna be For me they’ll never be Case Closed ↗

— Little Mix

#inspirational #little-mix #lyrics #inspirational

The newspaper is a marvelous medium. It is extraordinarily convenient and cheap. Let's see. This one cost 75 cents. Now that's a little high. I bought it when I was downtown this morning. ↗

— Harrison Salisbury

#cents #cheap #convenient #cost #downtown

It was no great tragedy being Judy Garland's daughter. I had tremendously interesting childhood years - except they had little to do with being a child. ↗

— Liza Minnelli

#child #childhood #daughter #except #garland

So many of the sounds that contemporary composers were trying to create were to be found in the traditional musics of the world. That was encouraging but also little daunting to think that you had to work so hard to be new and yet it was old. ↗

— Robert Morris

#composers #contemporary #create #daunting #encouraging

I just want to tell you what it's like not to have Planned Parenthood... you have to give your kids Ramen noodles at the end of the month to fill up their little bellies so they won't cry. You have to give them mayonnaise sandwiches. They get very few fruits and vegetables because they're expensive. ↗

— Gwen Moore

#bellies #cry #end #expensive #few