We’d never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started.
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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The sweetness of life lies in usefulness, like honey deep in the heart of a clover bloom.
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Courage and kindness, loyalty, truth, and helpfulness are always the same and always needed.
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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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That which is the wonder of one age is the commonplace of the next.
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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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There’s no great loss without some small gain.
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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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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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We heap up around us things that we do not need as the crow makes piles of glittering pebbles.
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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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I understood….that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.
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In order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times.
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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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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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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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