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 WILDERThere 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.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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Home is the nicest word there is.
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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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All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.
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We heap up around us things that we do not need as the crow makes piles of glittering pebbles.
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These happy golden years are passing by, these happy golden years.
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary’s eyes, and Mary was blind.
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There is no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to go home.
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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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The world seems a lonesome place when mother has passed away and only memories of her are left.
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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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There is nothing wrong with God’s plan that man should earn his bread by the sweat of his brow.
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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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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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I understood….that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.
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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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