People used to have time to live and enjoy themselves, but there is no time anymore for anything but work, work, work.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERThe wilderness needs your whole attention.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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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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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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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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Courage and kindness, loyalty, truth, and helpfulness are always the same and always needed.
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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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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.
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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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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 does not so much matter what happens. It is what one does when it happens that really counts.
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The world seems a lonesome place when mother has passed away and only memories of her are left.
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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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We had no choice. Sadness was a dangerous as panthers and bears. the wilderness needs your whole attention.
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We’d never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started.
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Every job is good if you do your best and work hard. A man who works hard stinks only to the ones that have nothing to do but smell.
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We must get rid of the habit of classing all women together politically and thinking of the ‘woman’s vote’ as one and indivisible.
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Home is the nicest word there is.
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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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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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Life begins at eighty.
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The wilderness needs your whole attention.
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There’s no great loss without some small gain.
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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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It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
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In order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times.
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I understood….that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.
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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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