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We’d never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Day Enough Interest Investment Profit
Let’s be cheerful! We have no more right to steal the brightness out of the day for our own family than we have to steal the purse of a stranger.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Cheerful Family Ourselves Purse Right Steal Stranger
The world seems a lonesome place when mother has passed away and only memories of her are left.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Herself Lonely Memories Mom Place World
Did you ever think how a bit of land shows the character of the owner?
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Appearance Character Thinking Yourself
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 WILDER

Life Love Nature Simplicity Sweet Worth
There is nothing wrong with God’s plan that man should earn his bread by the sweat of his brow.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

God Himself Planning Wrong
These happy golden years are passing by, these happy golden years.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Gold Happiness Moments Time
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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Easy Father Home Need Quick Weapon
A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Darkness Difficult Goodness Laughter Oneself
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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Best Goodness Job Oneself Work Hard
It does not so much matter what happens. It is what one does when it happens that really counts.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Count Oneself Work
Once you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful happens.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Beginning Death Easy
Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That’s a gift that you have received from God. Don’t waste it.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Forever Love Suffering Wasted Time
The uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Fear Heart Help Limitation Ourselves
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 WILDER

Battle Better Earth Happiness Life Mindset Thankful
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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Fever Home Short Sick Visit Wrong Yourself

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