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 WILDERLet’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.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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I believe we would be happier to have a personal revolution in our individual lives and go back to simpler living and more direct thinking.
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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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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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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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I understood….that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.
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A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.
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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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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.
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Money hasn’t any value of its own; it represents the stored up energy of men and women and is really just someone’s promise to pay a certain amount of that energy.
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In order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times.
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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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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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We had no choice. Sadness was a dangerous as panthers and bears. the wilderness needs your whole attention.
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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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