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 WILDERA good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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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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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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There is nothing wrong with God’s plan that man should earn his bread by the sweat of his brow.
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A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.
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It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
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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.
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Remember well, and bear in mind, a constant friend is hard to find.
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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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No one has ever achieved anything from the smallest to the greatest unless the dream was dreamed first.
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We who live in quiet places have the opportunity to become acquainted with ourselves, to think our own thoughts and live our own lives in a way that is not possible for those keeping up with the crowd.
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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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We had no choice. Sadness was a dangerous as panthers and bears. the wilderness needs your whole attention.
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You venture into the unknown land because that is where your heart will take you. In the end, it is not what you want to do, it is something you have to do.
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No rich man can walk through the eye of a needle.
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Vices are simply overworked virtues.
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