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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERThe sweetness of life lies in usefulness, like honey deep in the heart of a clover bloom.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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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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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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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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In order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times.
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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.
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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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These happy golden years are passing by, these happy golden years.
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I understood….that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.
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Did you ever think how a bit of land shows the character of the owner?
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Let your joy scream across the pain.
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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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It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
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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 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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We heap up around us things that we do not need as the crow makes piles of glittering pebbles.
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