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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERIf the members of a home are ill-temperered and quarrelsome, how quickly you feel it when you enter the house. You may not know just what is wrong, but you wish to make your visit short.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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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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It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
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We heap up around us things that we do not need as the crow makes piles of glittering pebbles.
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Let your joy scream across the pain.
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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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Life begins at eighty.
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Courage and kindness, loyalty, truth, and helpfulness are always the same and always needed.
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In order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times.
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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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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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It does not so much matter what happens. It is what one does when it happens that really counts.
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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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Never bet your money on another man’s game.
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The wilderness needs your whole attention.
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