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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERIt is not the things you have that make you happy. It is love and kindness and helping each other and just plain being good.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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The wilderness needs your whole attention.
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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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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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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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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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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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Remember well, and bear in mind, a constant friend is hard to find.
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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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The only stupid thing about words is the spelling of them.
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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 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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I understood….that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.
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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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Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.
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There’s no great loss without some small gain.
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