Courage and kindness, loyalty, truth, and helpfulness are always the same and always needed.
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 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.
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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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The uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers.
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This earthly life is a battle,’ said Ma. ‘If it isn’t one thing to contend with, it’s another. It always has been so, and it always will be. The sooner you make up your mind to that, the better off you are, and more thankful for your pleasures.
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If the members of a home are ill-temperered and quarrelsome, how quickly you feel it when you enter the house. You may not know just what is wrong, but you wish to make your visit short.
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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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Did you ever think how a bit of land shows the character of the owner?
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Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.
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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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We’d never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started.
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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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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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Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.
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The world seems a lonesome place when mother has passed away and only memories of her are left.
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It is the simple things of life that make living worthwhile, the sweet fundamental things such as love and duty, work and rest, and living close to nature.
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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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The object of all education is to make folks fit to live.
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There the wild animals wandered and fed as though they were in a pasture that stretched much farther than a man could see, and there were no settlers. Only Indians lived there.
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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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Let your joy scream across the pain.
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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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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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A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.
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