The wilderness needs your whole attention.
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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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 object of all education is to make folks fit to live.
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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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We must get rid of the habit of classing all women together politically and thinking of the ‘woman’s vote’ as one and indivisible.
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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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Vices are simply overworked virtues.
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A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.
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We who live in quiet places have the opportunity to become acquainted with ourselves, to think our own thoughts and live our own lives in a way that is not possible for those keeping up with the crowd.
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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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It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
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Remember well, and bear in mind, a constant friend is hard to find.
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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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Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That’s a gift that you have received from God. Don’t waste it.
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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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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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