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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERWe heap up around us things that we do not need as the crow makes piles of glittering pebbles.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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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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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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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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There’s no great loss without some small gain.
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All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.
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There is no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to go home.
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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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The world seems a lonesome place when mother has passed away and only memories of her are left.
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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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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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There is nothing wrong with God’s plan that man should earn his bread by the sweat of his brow.
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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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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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Never bet your money on another man’s game.
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It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
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