2026 Reading Challenge

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    Louisa May Alcott
    “I like good strong words that mean something…”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
    tags: little-women, louisa-may-alcott, words
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    Louisa May Alcott
    “I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
    tags: inspirational-ship-storms
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    Louisa May Alcott
    “I'd rather take coffee than compliments just now.”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
    tags: coffee, compliments, little-women, louisa-may-alcott
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    Louisa May Alcott
    “Your father, Jo. He never loses patience, never doubts or complains, but always hopes, and works and waits so cheerfully that one is ashamed to do otherwise before him.”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
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    Louisa May Alcott
    “Love Jo all your days, if you choose, but don't let it spoil you, for it's wicked to throw away so many good gifts because you can't have the one you want.”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
    tags: amy-march, jo-march, longing, lost-love, love, spoil, teddy-lawrence, unrequited-love, waste-of-life
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    Louisa May Alcott
    “There are many Beths in the world, shy and quiet, sitting in corners till needed, and living for others so cheerfully that no one sees the sacrifices till the little cricket on the hearth stops chirping, and the sweet, sunshiny presence vanishes, leaving silence and shadow behind.”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
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  • #7
    Louisa May Alcott
    “Watch and pray, dear, never get tired of trying, and never think it is impossible to conquer your fault.”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
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  • #8
    Louisa May Alcott
    “Let us be elegant or die!”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
    tags: femininity
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  • #9
    Louisa May Alcott
    “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)”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
    tags: beginning, beginnings, end, fresh-start, new-leaf, start-over, try-again
    450 likes

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  • #10
    Louisa May Alcott
    “Conceit spoils the finest genius.”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
    tags: wisdom
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  • #11
    Louisa May Alcott
    “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.”
    ― Louisa Alcott, Little Women
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  • #12
    Louisa May Alcott
    “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.”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
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    Louisa May Alcott
    “I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me…”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
    tags: little-women, loneliness, louisa-may-alcott
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  • #14
    Louisa May Alcott
    “Jo's eyes sparkled, for it's always pleasant to be believed in; and a friend's praise is always sweeter than a dozen newspaper puffs.”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
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  • #15
    Louisa May Alcott
    “The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
    tags: beauty, humble, love, tasks, work
    199 likes

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  • #16
    Louisa May Alcott
    “If I didn't care about doing right and didn't feel uncomfortable doing wrong, I should get on capitally.”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
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  • #17
    Leonard Cohen
    “We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.”
    ― Leonard Cohen
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  • #18
    Leonard Cohen
    “Please make me empty, if I'm empty then I can receive, if I can receive it means it comes from somewhere outside of me, if it comes from outside of me I'm not alone! I cannot bear this loneliness. Above all it is loneliness.”
    ― Leonard Cohen, Beautiful Losers
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  • #19
    Leonard Cohen
    “There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn't.”
    ― Leonard Cohen
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    Leonard Cohen
    “Ah, grief makes us precise!”
    ― Leonard Cohen, Beautiful Losers
    tags: grief
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  • #21
    Søren Kierkegaard
    “Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard , The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Orienting Deliberation on the Dogmatic Issue of Hereditary Sin
    tags: anxiety, dizziness, fear, freedom, life
    3132 likes

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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard, The Journals of Kierkegaard
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.”
    ― Soren Kierkegaard
    tags: blindness, fools, self-deception, truth, willful-blindness, willful-ignorance
    1974 likes

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  • #24
    Søren Kierkegaard
    “The most common form of despair is not being who you are.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard
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  • #25
    Søren Kierkegaard
    “The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss - an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. - is sure to be noticed.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard, The Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening
    tags: despair, self
    1400 likes

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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “What labels me, negates me.”
    ― Soren Kierkegaard
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly.”
    ― Soren Kierkegaard, Provocations: Spiritual Writings of Kierkegaard
    tags: bible, christianity
    1159 likes

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  • #28
    Søren Kierkegaard
    “In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant… My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known — no wonder, then, that I return the love.”
    ― Soren Kierkegaard, Either/Or: A Fragment of Life
    tags: depression
    1010 likes

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  • #29
    Søren Kierkegaard
    “Love is the expression of the one who loves, not of the one who is loved. Those who think they can love only the people they prefer do not love at all. Love discovers truths about individuals that others cannot see”
    ― Soren Kierkegaard
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  • #30
    Søren Kierkegaard
    “What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?”
    ― Soren Kierkegaard
    809 likes



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