Life begins at eighty.
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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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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It does not so much matter what happens. It is what one does when it happens that really counts.
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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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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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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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There’s no great loss without some small gain.
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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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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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It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
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Once you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful happens.
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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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That which is the wonder of one age is the commonplace of the next.
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The only stupid thing about words is the spelling of them.
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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 wilderness needs your whole attention.
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