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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERLife begins at eighty.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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Vices are simply overworked virtues.
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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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We heap up around us things that we do not need as the crow makes piles of glittering pebbles.
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It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
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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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The uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers.
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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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All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.
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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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Never bet your money on another man’s game.
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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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In order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times.
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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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Wild animals would not stay in a country where there were so many people. Pa did not like to stay, either. He liked a country where the wild animals lived without being afraid.
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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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