In order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times.
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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Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time.
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Did you ever think how a bit of land shows the character of the owner?
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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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No one has ever achieved anything from the smallest to the greatest unless the dream was dreamed first.
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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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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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It does not so much matter what happens. It is what one does when it happens that really counts.
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Home is the nicest word there is.
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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 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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The wilderness needs your whole attention.
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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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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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The uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers.
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