Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That’s a gift that you have received from God. Don’t waste it.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERWe’d never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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Life begins at eighty.
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That which is the wonder of one age is the commonplace of the next.
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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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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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Remember well, and bear in mind, a constant friend is hard to find.
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All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.
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Never bet your money on another man’s game.
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All those golden autumn days the sky was full of wings. Wings beating low over the blue water of Silver Lake, wings beating high in the blue air far above it bearing them all away to the green fields in the South.
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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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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.
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No rich man can walk through the eye of a needle.
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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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There’s no great loss without some small gain.
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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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Home is the nicest word there is.
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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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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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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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Let your joy scream across the pain.
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There the wild animals wandered and fed as though they were in a pasture that stretched much farther than a man could see, and there were no settlers. Only Indians lived there.
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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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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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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.
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The object of all education is to make folks fit to live.
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Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.
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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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