You venture into the unknown land because that is where your heart will take you. In the end, it is not what you want to do, it is something you have to do.
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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Her blue eyes were still beautiful, but they did not know what was before them, and Mary herself could never look through them again to tell Laura what she was thinking without saying a word.
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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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No rich man can walk through the eye of a needle.
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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.
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There is no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to go home.
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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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We heap up around us things that we do not need as the crow makes piles of glittering pebbles.
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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.
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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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In order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times.
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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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No one has ever achieved anything from the smallest to the greatest unless the dream was dreamed first.
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Remember well, and bear in mind, a constant friend is hard to find.
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It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
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Life begins at eighty.
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