In order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERAll I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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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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We’d never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started.
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Did you ever think how a bit of land shows the character of the owner?
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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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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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Vices are simply overworked virtues.
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Her blue eyes were still beautiful, but they did not know what was before them, and Mary herself could never look through them again to tell Laura what she was thinking without saying a word.
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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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I believe we would be happier to have a personal revolution in our individual lives and go back to simpler living and more direct thinking.
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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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In these days when we feed those who are not hungry, we are stealing from those who are starving, even though the food is our own.
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Remember well, and bear in mind, a constant friend is hard to find.
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Once you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful happens.
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The only stupid thing about words is the spelling of them.
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Let your joy scream across the pain.
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