There’s no great loss without some small gain.
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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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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The sweetness of life lies in usefulness, like honey deep in the heart of a clover bloom.
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The uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers.
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Never bet your money on another man’s game.
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I understood….that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.
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If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it, I guess it’s pretty nearly bound to happen, wind and weather permitting.
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Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.
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In order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times.
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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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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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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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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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These happy golden years are passing by, these happy golden years.
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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 only stupid thing about words is the spelling of them.
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