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 WILDERIn order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times.
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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Let your joy scream across the pain.
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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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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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Remember well, and bear in mind, a constant friend is hard to find.
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That which is the wonder of one age is the commonplace of the next.
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Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.
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There’s no great loss without some small gain.
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There is no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to go home.
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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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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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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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In order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times.
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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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Vices are simply overworked virtues.
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