The sweetness of life lies in usefulness, like honey deep in the heart of a clover bloom.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERWe’d never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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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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All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.
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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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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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Home is the nicest word there is.
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I understood….that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.
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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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We heap up around us things that we do not need as the crow makes piles of glittering pebbles.
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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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No rich man can walk through the eye of a needle.
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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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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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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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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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