Did you ever think how a bit of land shows the character of the owner?
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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Once you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful happens.
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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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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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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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I understood….that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.
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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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The uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers.
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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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These happy golden years are passing by, these happy golden years.
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It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
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There the wild animals wandered and fed as though they were in a pasture that stretched much farther than a man could see, and there were no settlers. Only Indians lived there.
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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 world seems a lonesome place when mother has passed away and only memories of her are left.
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There is a spirit in every home, a sort of composite spirit composed of the thoughts and feelings of the members of the family as a composite photograph is formed of the features of different individuals.
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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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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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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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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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Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That’s a gift that you have received from God. Don’t waste it.
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Home is the nicest word there is.
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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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The sweetness of life lies in usefulness, like honey deep in the heart of a clover bloom.
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Every job is good if you do your best and work hard. A man who works hard stinks only to the ones that have nothing to do but smell.
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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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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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The real things haven’t changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.
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