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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERThe wilderness needs your whole attention.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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The object of all education is to make folks fit to live.
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All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.
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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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I understood….that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.
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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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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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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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Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time.
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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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No one has ever achieved anything from the smallest to the greatest unless the dream was dreamed first.
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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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Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.
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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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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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