Courage and kindness, loyalty, truth, and helpfulness are always the same and always needed.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERIt is a good idea sometimes to think of the importance and dignity of our every-day duties. It keeps them from being so tiresome; besides, others are apt take us at our own valuation.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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Life begins at eighty.
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Everything from the little house was in the wagon, except the beds and tables and chairs. They did not need to take these, because Pa could always make new ones.
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The uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers.
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Home is the nicest word there is.
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There’s no great loss without some small gain.
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The true way to live is to enjoy every moment as it passes, and surely it is in the everyday things around us that the beauty of life lies.
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The world seems a lonesome place when mother has passed away and only memories of her are left.
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People used to have time to live and enjoy themselves, but there is no time anymore for anything but work, work, work.
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Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.
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It does not so much matter what happens. It is what one does when it happens that really counts.
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Why should we need extra time in which to enjoy ourselves? If we expect to enjoy our life, we will have to learn to be joyful in all of it, not just at stated intervals when we can get time or when we have nothing else to do.
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The sweetness of life lies in usefulness, like honey deep in the heart of a clover bloom.
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We go lightheartedly on our way, never thinking that by a careless word or two we may have altered the whole course of human lives, for some person will take our advice and use it.
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The days have never been long enough to do the things I would like to do. Every year has held more of interest than the year before.
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Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time.
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