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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERLet your joy scream across the pain.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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There is no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to go home.
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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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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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Remember well, and bear in mind, a constant friend is hard to find.
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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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In these days when we feed those who are not hungry, we are stealing from those who are starving, even though the food is our own.
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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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The wilderness needs your whole attention.
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Never bet your money on another man’s game.
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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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Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.
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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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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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Let your joy scream across the pain.
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I understood….that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.
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