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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERYou 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.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.
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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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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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Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That’s a gift that you have received from God. Don’t waste it.
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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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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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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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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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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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We had no choice. Sadness was a dangerous as panthers and bears. the wilderness needs your whole attention.
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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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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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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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Life begins at eighty.
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