"Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations."

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Source : Louisa May Alcott (2009). “Work: A Story of Experience: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.305, ReadHowYouWant.com

Louisa May Alcott

#Sunshine Quotes #Far Away Quotes #Aspiration Quotes

“If conversation was the lyrics, laughter was the music, making time spent together a melody that could be replayed over and over without getting stale.”
“I want to play a variety of different characters in different genres of film.”
“The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be.”
“It is not your outward appearance that you should beautify, but your soul, adorning it with good works.”
“I combined theatre and films with live TV, such as The Royal Variety Show, performing sketches opposite Bob Hope and Maurice Chevalier.”
“To mature is in part to realize that while complete intimacy and omniscience and power cannot be had, self-transcendence, growth, and closeness to others are nevertheless within one's reach.”

Source : Sissela Bok (2011). “Secrets: On the Ethics of Concealment and Revelation”, p.40, Vintage
“continually measuring women's wants by men's achievements seems out of date, ignominious, and intolerably boring. ... Now that we have secured possession of the tools of citizenship, we intend to use them not to copy men's models but to produce our own.”

Source : Ray Strachey, Eleanor Florence Rathbone (1936). “Our freedom and its results”
“I believe in God. Maybe not the Catholic God or even the Christian one because I have a hard time seeing any God as elitist. I also have a hard time believing that anything that created rain forests and oceans and an infinite universe would, in the same process, create something as unnatural as humanity in its own image. I believe in God, but not as a he or she or an it, but as something that defines my ability to conceptualize within the rather paltry frames of reference I have on hand.”

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