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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERMany a good beginning makes a bad ending.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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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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No rich man can walk through the eye of a needle.
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These happy golden years are passing by, these happy golden years.
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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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There 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.
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Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.
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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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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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There is a spirit in every home, a sort of composite spirit composed of the thoughts and feelings of the members of the family as a composite photograph is formed of the features of different individuals.
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That which is the wonder of one age is the commonplace of the next.
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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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The sweetness of life lies in usefulness, like honey deep in the heart of a clover bloom.
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There’s no great loss without some small gain.
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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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The object of all education is to make folks fit to live.
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