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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERIt is not the things you have that make you happy. It is love and kindness and helping each other and just plain being good.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.
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There is a spirit in every home, a sort of composite spirit composed of the thoughts and feelings of the members of the family as a composite photograph is formed of the features of different individuals.
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I understood….that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.
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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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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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Did you ever think how a bit of land shows the character of the owner?
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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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In order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times.
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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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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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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.
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary’s eyes, and Mary was blind.
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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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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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The object of all education is to make folks fit to live.
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Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.
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There is no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to go home.
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Courage and kindness, loyalty, truth, and helpfulness are always the same and always needed.
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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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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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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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Life begins at eighty.
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The uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers.
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Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That’s a gift that you have received from God. Don’t waste it.
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No one has ever achieved anything from the smallest to the greatest unless the dream was dreamed first.
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Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.
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