Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That’s a gift that you have received from God. Don’t waste it.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERWild 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.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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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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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 real things haven’t changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.
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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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Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.
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All those golden autumn days the sky was full of wings. Wings beating low over the blue water of Silver Lake, wings beating high in the blue air far above it bearing them all away to the green fields in the South.
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Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.
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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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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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Did you ever think how a bit of land shows the character of the owner?
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The uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers.
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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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That which is the wonder of one age is the commonplace of the next.
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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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Home is the nicest word there is.
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There is no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to go home.
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This earthly life is a battle,’ said Ma. ‘If it isn’t one thing to contend with, it’s another. It always has been so, and it always will be. The sooner you make up your mind to that, the better off you are, and more thankful for your pleasures.
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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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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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Let your joy scream across the pain.
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All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.
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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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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary’s eyes, and Mary was blind.
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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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We had no choice. Sadness was a dangerous as panthers and bears. the wilderness needs your whole attention.
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I understood….that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.
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