Life begins at eighty.
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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There’s no great loss without some small gain.
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Remember well, and bear in mind, a constant friend is hard to find.
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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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The only stupid thing about words is the spelling of them.
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Never bet your money on another man’s game.
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That which is the wonder of one age is the commonplace of the next.
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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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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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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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In these days when we feed those who are not hungry, we are stealing from those who are starving, even though the food is our own.
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The sweetness of life lies in usefulness, like honey deep in the heart of a clover bloom.
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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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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.
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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 days have never been long enough to do the things I would like to do. Every year has held more of interest than the year before.
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