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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERThis 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.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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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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Life begins at eighty.
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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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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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Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I’ll remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don’t remember me at all.
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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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That which is the wonder of one age is the commonplace of the next.
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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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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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No rich man can walk through the eye of a needle.
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The wilderness needs your whole attention.
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The days have never been long enough to do the things I would like to do. Every year has held more of interest than the year before.
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Never bet your money on another man’s game.
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Courage and kindness, loyalty, truth, and helpfulness are always the same and always needed.
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All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.
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