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.
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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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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All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.
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These happy golden years are passing by, these happy golden years.
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You venture into the unknown land because that is where your heart will take you. In the end, it is not what you want to do, it is something you have to do.
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If the members of a home are ill-temperered and quarrelsome, how quickly you feel it when you enter the house. You may not know just what is wrong, but you wish to make your visit short.
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We’d never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started.
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It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
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Wild animals would not stay in a country where there were so many people. Pa did not like to stay, either. He liked a country where the wild animals lived without being afraid.
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Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.
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Vices are simply overworked virtues.
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There the wild animals wandered and fed as though they were in a pasture that stretched much farther than a man could see, and there were no settlers. Only Indians lived there.
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Money hasn’t any value of its own; it represents the stored up energy of men and women and is really just someone’s promise to pay a certain amount of that energy.
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When Pa was at home the gun always lay across those two wooden hooks above the door. … The gun was always loaded, and always above the door so that Pa could get it quickly and easily, any time he needed a gun.
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We must get rid of the habit of classing all women together politically and thinking of the ‘woman’s vote’ as one and indivisible.
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Courage and kindness, loyalty, truth, and helpfulness are always the same and always needed.
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