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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERYou 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.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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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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The days have never been long enough to do the things I would like to do. Every year has held more of interest than the year before.
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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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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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All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.
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That which is the wonder of one age is the commonplace of the next.
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Home is the nicest word there is.
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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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Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I’ll remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don’t remember me at all.
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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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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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Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.
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The uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers. No one ever overcomes difficulties by going at them in a hesitant, doubtful way.
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Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.
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Vices are simply overworked virtues.
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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 had no choice. Sadness was a dangerous as panthers and bears. the wilderness needs your whole attention.
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Every job is good if you do your best and work hard. A man who works hard stinks only to the ones that have nothing to do but smell.
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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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The sweetness of life lies in usefulness, like honey deep in the heart of a clover bloom.
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When Pa was at home the gun always lay across those two wooden hooks above the door. … The gun was always loaded, and always above the door so that Pa could get it quickly and easily, any time he needed a gun.
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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 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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Courage and kindness, loyalty, truth, and helpfulness are always the same and always needed.
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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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We heap up around us things that we do not need as the crow makes piles of glittering pebbles.
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