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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERThe object of all education is to make folks fit to live.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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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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Every job is good if you do your best and work hard. A man who works hard stinks only to the ones that have nothing to do but smell.
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No rich man can walk through the eye of a needle.
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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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In these days when we feed those who are not hungry, we are stealing from those who are starving, even though the food is our own.
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There’s no great loss without some small gain.
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Money hasn’t any value of its own; it represents the stored up energy of men and women and is really just someone’s promise to pay a certain amount of that energy.
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I understood….that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.
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Courage and kindness, loyalty, truth, and helpfulness are always the same and always needed.
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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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You venture into the unknown land because that is where your heart will take you. In the end, it is not what you want to do, it is something you have to do.
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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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It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
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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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The only stupid thing about words is the spelling of them.
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