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.
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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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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Courage and kindness, loyalty, truth, and helpfulness are always the same and always needed.
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Her blue eyes were still beautiful, but they did not know what was before them, and Mary herself could never look through them again to tell Laura what she was thinking without saying a word.
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Never bet your money on another man’s game.
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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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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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There is no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to go home.
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That which is the wonder of one age is the commonplace of the next.
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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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There is nothing wrong with God’s plan that man should earn his bread by the sweat of his brow.
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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 only stupid thing about words is the spelling of them.
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It does not so much matter what happens. It is what one does when it happens that really counts.
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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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The object of all education is to make folks fit to live.
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Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time.
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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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All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.
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It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
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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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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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Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.
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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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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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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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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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