Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That’s a gift that you have received from God. Don’t waste it.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERIt 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.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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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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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.
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There is no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to go home.
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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.
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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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No rich man can walk through the eye of a needle.
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I understood….that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.
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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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The wilderness needs your whole attention.
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The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they’re organized for.
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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.
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There’s no great loss without some small gain.
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Vices are simply overworked virtues.
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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’d never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started.
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