Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I’ll remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don’t remember me at all.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERTact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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Life begins at eighty.
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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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Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That’s a gift that you have received from God. Don’t waste it.
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Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.
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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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In order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times.
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Why 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.
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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 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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We had no choice. Sadness was a dangerous as panthers and bears. the wilderness needs your whole attention.
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That which is the wonder of one age is the commonplace of the next.
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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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Once you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful happens.
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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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Remember well, and bear in mind, a constant friend is hard to find.
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