Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I’ll remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don’t remember me at all.
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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We had no choice. Sadness was a dangerous as panthers and bears. the wilderness needs your whole attention.
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There’s no great loss without some small gain.
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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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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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Home is the nicest word there is.
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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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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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Let your joy scream across the pain.
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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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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 sweetness of life lies in usefulness, like honey deep in the heart of a clover bloom.
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The days have never been long enough to do the things I would like to do. Every year has held more of interest than the year before.
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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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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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Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That’s a gift that you have received from God. Don’t waste it.
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