It is the simple things of life that make living worthwhile, the sweet fundamental things such as love and duty, work and rest, and living close to nature.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERThe 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.
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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Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That’s a gift that you have received from God. Don’t waste it.
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When Pa was at home the gun always lay across those two wooden hooks above the door. … The gun was always loaded, and always above the door so that Pa could get it quickly and easily, any time he needed a gun.
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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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It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
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That which is the wonder of one age is the commonplace of the next.
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All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.
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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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It does not so much matter what happens. It is what one does when it happens that really counts.
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Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.
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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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These happy golden years are passing by, these happy golden years.
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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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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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I understood….that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.
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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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Vices are simply overworked virtues.
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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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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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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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Remember well, and bear in mind, a constant friend is hard to find.
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If the members of a home are ill-temperered and quarrelsome, how quickly you feel it when you enter the house. You may not know just what is wrong, but you wish to make your visit short.
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In order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times.
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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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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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