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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERWhy 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.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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Courage and kindness, loyalty, truth, and helpfulness are always the same and always needed.
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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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That which is the wonder of one age is the commonplace of the next.
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary’s eyes, and Mary was blind.
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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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Life begins at eighty.
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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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The sweetness of life lies in usefulness, like honey deep in the heart of a clover bloom.
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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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It does not so much matter what happens. It is what one does when it happens that really counts.
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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 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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The uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers. No one ever overcomes difficulties by going at them in a hesitant, doubtful way.
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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 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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