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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.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Each Other Goodness Happiness Help Kindness Love
This earthly life is a battle,’ said Ma. ‘If it isn’t one thing to contend with, it’s another. It always has been so, and it always will be. The sooner you make up your mind to that, the better off you are, and more thankful for your pleasures.
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Battle Better Earth Happiness Life Mindset Thankful
Everything from the little house was in the wagon, except the beds and tables and chairs. They did not need to take these, because Pa could always make new ones.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Build Exception Father Home Need Ourselves
Let’s be cheerful! We have no more right to steal the brightness out of the day for our own family than we have to steal the purse of a stranger.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Cheerful Family Ourselves Purse Right Steal Stranger
There is no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to go home.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Comfortable Home Journey Travel
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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Afraid Animal Country Father Stay Wild
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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Enjoyment Extra Ourselves Philosophy Time
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 WILDER

Beautiful Life Live Moments True Way
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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Deep End Heart Inspirational Land Travel Work Yourself
Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Defeat Fashion Hard Nature Old Sunshine
Never bet your money on another man’s game.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Game Man Money
If the members of a home are ill-temperered and quarrelsome, how quickly you feel it when you enter the house. You may not know just what is wrong, but you wish to make your visit short.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Fever Home Short Sick Visit Wrong Yourself
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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Difficult Doubt Fear Heart Help Hesitant Way
We heap up around us things that we do not need as the crow makes piles of glittering pebbles.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Need Shine Stone
The uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers.
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Fear Heart Help Limitation Ourselves
There the wild animals wandered and fed as though they were in a pasture that stretched much farther than a man could see, and there were no settlers. Only Indians lived there.
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Animal Food Live Man See Wild
The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they’re organized for.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Attention Organization Pay Trouble
It is a good idea sometimes to think of the importance and dignity of our every-day duties. It keeps them from being so tiresome; besides, others are apt take us at our own valuation.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Dignity Goodness Ideas Important Ourselves Time Value
It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Life Oneself Reality Simplicity Sweet
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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Day Gold Water Wings
Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That’s a gift that you have received from God. Don’t waste it.
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Forever Love Suffering Wasted Time
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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Laughter Remember Smile Tears Yourself
We’d never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Beginning Start Time Wait
Courage and kindness, loyalty, truth, and helpfulness are always the same and always needed.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Courage Kindness Loyalty Need Truth
It does not so much matter what happens. It is what one does when it happens that really counts.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Count Oneself Work
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 WILDER

Enough Hard Work Myself People
These happy golden years are passing by, these happy golden years.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Gold Happiness Moments Time

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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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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