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.
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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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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The wilderness needs your whole attention.
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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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There is a spirit in every home, a sort of composite spirit composed of the thoughts and feelings of the members of the family as a composite photograph is formed of the features of different individuals.
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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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We heap up around us things that we do not need as the crow makes piles of glittering pebbles.
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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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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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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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I understood….that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.
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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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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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Never bet your money on another man’s game.
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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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