The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they’re organized for.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERThe 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.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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Did you ever think how a bit of land shows the character of the owner?
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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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This earthly life is a battle,’ said Ma. ‘If it isn’t one thing to contend with, it’s another. It always has been so, and it always will be. The sooner you make up your mind to that, the better off you are, and more thankful for your pleasures.
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It is the simple things of life that make living worthwhile, the sweet fundamental things such as love and duty, work and rest, and living close to nature.
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Let’s be cheerful! We have no more right to steal the brightness out of the day for our own family than we have to steal the purse of a stranger.
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Remember well, and bear in mind, a constant friend is hard to find.
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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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It does not so much matter what happens. It is what one does when it happens that really counts.
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That which is the wonder of one age is the commonplace of the next.
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We who live in quiet places have the opportunity to become acquainted with ourselves, to think our own thoughts and live our own lives in a way that is not possible for those keeping up with the crowd.
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Life begins at eighty.
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The object of all education is to make folks fit to live.
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All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary’s eyes, and Mary was blind.
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These happy golden years are passing by, these happy golden years.
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We had no choice. Sadness was a dangerous as panthers and bears. the wilderness needs your whole attention.
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No rich man can walk through the eye of a needle.
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Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.
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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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The world seems a lonesome place when mother has passed away and only memories of her are left.
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These times are too progressive. Everything has changed too fast. Railroads and telegraphs and kerosene and coal stoves — they’re good to have but the trouble is, folks get to depend on ’em.
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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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The wilderness needs your whole attention.
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The uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers. No one ever overcomes difficulties by going at them in a hesitant, doubtful way.
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In order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times.
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Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I’ll remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don’t remember me at all.
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