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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERThere 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.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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The object of all education is to make folks fit to live.
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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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Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.
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Courage and kindness, loyalty, truth, and helpfulness are always the same and always needed.
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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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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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Vices are simply overworked virtues.
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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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Did you ever think how a bit of land shows the character of the owner?
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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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That which is the wonder of one age is the commonplace of the next.
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Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I’ll remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don’t remember me at all.
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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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Life begins at eighty.
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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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