It is the simple things of life that make living worthwhile, the sweet fundamental things such as love and duty, work and rest, and living close to nature.
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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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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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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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary’s eyes, and Mary was blind.
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No rich man can walk through the eye of a needle.
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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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Vices are simply overworked virtues.
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Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That’s a gift that you have received from God. Don’t waste it.
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I understood….that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.
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The wilderness needs your whole attention.
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The 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.
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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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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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Once you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful happens.
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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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Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.
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