I understood….that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.
LAURA INGALLS WILDEROur 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.
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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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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Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.
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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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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 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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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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We’d never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started.
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It 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.
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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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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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It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
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The wilderness needs your whole attention.
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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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The only stupid thing about words is the spelling of them.
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