The object of all education is to make folks fit to live.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERIn order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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When Pa was at home the gun always lay across those two wooden hooks above the door. … The gun was always loaded, and always above the door so that Pa could get it quickly and easily, any time he needed a gun.
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Courage and kindness, loyalty, truth, and helpfulness are always the same and always needed.
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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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We’d never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started.
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These times are too progressive. Everything has changed too fast. Railroads and telegraphs and kerosene and coal stoves — they’re good to have but the trouble is, folks get to depend on ’em.
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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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The uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers.
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A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.
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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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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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Home is the nicest word there is.
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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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We had no choice. Sadness was a dangerous as panthers and bears. the wilderness needs your whole attention.
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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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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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