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.
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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Courage and kindness, loyalty, truth, and helpfulness are always the same and always needed.
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Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.
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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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Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.
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Life begins at eighty.
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Her blue eyes were still beautiful, but they did not know what was before them, and Mary herself could never look through them again to tell Laura what she was thinking without saying a word.
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Let your joy scream across the pain.
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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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People used to have time to live and enjoy themselves, but there is no time anymore for anything but work, work, work.
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The uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers. No one ever overcomes difficulties by going at them in a hesitant, doubtful way.
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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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Did you ever think how a bit of land shows the character of the owner?
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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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That which is the wonder of one age is the commonplace of the next.
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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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