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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDEROnce you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful happens.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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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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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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These happy golden years are passing by, these happy golden years.
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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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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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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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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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We’d never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started.
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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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We must get rid of the habit of classing all women together politically and thinking of the ‘woman’s vote’ as one and indivisible.
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It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
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Remember well, and bear in mind, a constant friend is hard to find.
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All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.
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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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