It is not the things you have that make you happy. It is love and kindness and helping each other and just plain being good.
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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Remember well, and bear in mind, a constant friend is hard to find.
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Vices are simply overworked virtues.
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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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All those golden autumn days the sky was full of wings. Wings beating low over the blue water of Silver Lake, wings beating high in the blue air far above it bearing them all away to the green fields in the South.
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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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We’d never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started.
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All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.
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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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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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That which is the wonder of one age is the commonplace of the next.
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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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Courage and kindness, loyalty, truth, and helpfulness are always the same and always needed.
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Home is the nicest word there is.
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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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We heap up around us things that we do not need as the crow makes piles of glittering pebbles.
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