It does not so much matter what happens. It is what one does when it happens that really counts.
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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We’d never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started.
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Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.
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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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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.
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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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Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That’s a gift that you have received from God. Don’t waste it.
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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.
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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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We must get rid of the habit of classing all women together politically and thinking of the ‘woman’s vote’ as one and indivisible.
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Remember well, and bear in mind, a constant friend is hard to find.
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The object of all education is to make folks fit to live.
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The wilderness needs your whole attention.
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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 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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There is no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to go home.
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