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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.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That’s a gift that you have received from God. Don’t waste it.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Forever Love Suffering Wasted Time
Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Defeat Fashion Hard Nature Old Sunshine
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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Dignity Goodness Ideas Important Ourselves Time Value
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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Believe Direction Happiness Personal Revolution Simplicity Thinking
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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Easy Father Home Need Quick Weapon
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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Advice Heart Human Light Live Person Thinking Way
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 WILDER

Enough Hard Work Myself People
The sweetness of life lies in usefulness, like honey deep in the heart of a clover bloom.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Heart Life Lying Sweet
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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Life Love Nature Simplicity Sweet Worth
The only stupid thing about words is the spelling of them.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Funny Literature Stupidity Word
Let’s be cheerful! We have no more right to steal the brightness out of the day for our own family than we have to steal the purse of a stranger.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Cheerful Family Ourselves Purse Right Steal Stranger
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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Different Feeling Home Member Photograph Spirit
Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Bad Beginning End Goodness
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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Best Change Courage Honesty Reality Simplicity Wrong
We had no choice. Sadness was a dangerous as panthers and bears. the wilderness needs your whole attention.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Attention Choice Dangerous Need Sadness Yourself
Life begins at eighty.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Beginning Deep Life One Liner Perspective

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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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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