Life begins at eighty.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERThere 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.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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The wilderness needs your whole attention.
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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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Home is the nicest word there is.
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary’s eyes, and Mary was blind.
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There’s no great loss without some small gain.
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No rich man can walk through the eye of a needle.
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It is a good idea sometimes to think of the importance and dignity of our every-day duties. It keeps them from being so tiresome; besides, others are apt take us at our own valuation.
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If the members of a home are ill-temperered and quarrelsome, how quickly you feel it when you enter the house. You may not know just what is wrong, but you wish to make your visit short.
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Courage and kindness, loyalty, truth, and helpfulness are always the same and always needed.
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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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Wild animals would not stay in a country where there were so many people. Pa did not like to stay, either. He liked a country where the wild animals lived without being afraid.
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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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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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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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It does not so much matter what happens. It is what one does when it happens that really counts.
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