A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERThe 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.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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I understood….that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.
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Let your joy scream across the pain.
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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.
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These happy golden years are passing by, these happy golden years.
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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’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.
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Once you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful happens.
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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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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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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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It does not so much matter what happens. It is what one does when it happens that really counts.
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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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It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
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Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.
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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.
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