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.
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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I understood….that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.
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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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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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Wild animals would not stay in a country where there were so many people. Pa did not like to stay, either. He liked a country where the wild animals lived without being afraid.
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In order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times.
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Never bet your money on another man’s game.
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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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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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Let your joy scream across the pain.
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The sweetness of life lies in usefulness, like honey deep in the heart of a clover bloom.
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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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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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Remember well, and bear in mind, a constant friend is hard to find.
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The uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers.
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These happy golden years are passing by, these happy golden years.
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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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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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There’s no great loss without some small gain.
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Vices are simply overworked virtues.
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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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The only stupid thing about words is the spelling of them.
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The true way to live is to enjoy every moment as it passes, and surely it is in the everyday things around us that the beauty of life lies.
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No rich man can walk through the eye of a needle.
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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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It does not so much matter what happens. It is what one does when it happens that really counts.
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The object of all education is to make folks fit to live.
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