There is no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to go home.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERWe had no choice. Sadness was a dangerous as panthers and bears. the wilderness needs your whole attention.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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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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No rich man can walk through the eye of a needle.
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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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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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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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Home is the nicest word there is.
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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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Vices are simply overworked virtues.
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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 had no choice. Sadness was a dangerous as panthers and bears. the wilderness needs your whole attention.
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