The wilderness needs your whole attention.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERThe trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they’re organized for.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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Home is the nicest word there is.
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The only stupid thing about words is the spelling of them.
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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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Courage and kindness, loyalty, truth, and helpfulness are always the same and always needed.
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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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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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Let your joy scream across the pain.
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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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All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.
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That which is the wonder of one age is the commonplace of the next.
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Everything from the little house was in the wagon, except the beds and tables and chairs. They did not need to take these, because Pa could always make new ones.
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These happy golden years are passing by, these happy golden years.
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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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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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Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.
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