A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.
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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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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We’d never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started.
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Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time.
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The wilderness needs your whole attention.
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Home is the nicest word there is.
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We go lightheartedly on our way, never thinking that by a careless word or two we may have altered the whole course of human lives, for some person will take our advice and use it.
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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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We heap up around us things that we do not need as the crow makes piles of glittering pebbles.
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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.
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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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Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.
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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.
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Life begins at eighty.
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Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That’s a gift that you have received from God. Don’t waste it.
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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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