Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That’s a gift that you have received from God. Don’t waste it.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERDid you ever think how a bit of land shows the character of the owner?
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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In order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times.
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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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We who live in quiet places have the opportunity to become acquainted with ourselves, to think our own thoughts and live our own lives in a way that is not possible for those keeping up with the crowd.
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Vices are simply overworked virtues.
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It does not so much matter what happens. It is what one does when it happens that really counts.
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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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Never bet your money on another man’s game.
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The wilderness needs your whole attention.
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If the members of a home are ill-temperered and quarrelsome, how quickly you feel it when you enter the house. You may not know just what is wrong, but you wish to make your visit short.
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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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The object of all education is to make folks fit to live.
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Home is the nicest word there is.
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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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There’s no great loss without some small gain.
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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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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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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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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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A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.
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I understood….that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.
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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.
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Did you ever think how a bit of land shows the character of the owner?
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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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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary’s eyes, and Mary was blind.
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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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