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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There is nothing wrong with God’s plan that man should earn his bread by the sweat of his brow.
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When Pa was at home the gun always lay across those two wooden hooks above the door. … The gun was always loaded, and always above the door so that Pa could get it quickly and easily, any time he needed a gun.
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The uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers.
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A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.
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The real things haven’t changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.
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Never bet your money on another man’s game.
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I understood….that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.
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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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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 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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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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We had no choice. Sadness was a dangerous as panthers and bears. the wilderness needs your whole attention.
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Let your joy scream across the pain.
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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 wilderness needs your whole attention.
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