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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERPeople used to have time to live and enjoy themselves, but there is no time anymore for anything but work, work, work.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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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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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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Remember well, and bear in mind, a constant friend is hard to find.
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Did you ever think how a bit of land shows the character of the owner?
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Never bet your money on another man’s game.
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All those golden autumn days the sky was full of wings. Wings beating low over the blue water of Silver Lake, wings beating high in the blue air far above it bearing them all away to the green fields in the South.
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Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time.
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The only stupid thing about words is the spelling of them.
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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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These times are too progressive. Everything has changed too fast. Railroads and telegraphs and kerosene and coal stoves — they’re good to have but the trouble is, folks get to depend on ’em.
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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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These happy golden years are passing by, these happy golden years.
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Let your joy scream across the pain.
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A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.
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It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
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