It does not so much matter what happens. It is what one does when it happens that really counts.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERI believe we would be happier to have a personal revolution in our individual lives and go back to simpler living and more direct thinking.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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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.
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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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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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We heap up around us things that we do not need as the crow makes piles of glittering pebbles.
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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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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary’s eyes, and Mary was blind.
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The object of all education is to make folks fit to live.
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There’s no great loss without some small gain.
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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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No one has ever achieved anything from the smallest to the greatest unless the dream was dreamed first.
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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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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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Did you ever think how a bit of land shows the character of the owner?
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Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.
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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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