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.
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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We heap up around us things that we do not need as the crow makes piles of glittering pebbles.
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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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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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Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That’s a gift that you have received from God. Don’t waste it.
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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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The wilderness needs your whole attention.
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Never bet your money on another man’s game.
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These happy golden years are passing by, these happy golden years.
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Home is the nicest word there is.
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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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We who live in quiet places have the opportunity to become acquainted with ourselves, to think our own thoughts and live our own lives in a way that is not possible for those keeping up with the crowd.
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Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.
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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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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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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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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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The only stupid thing about words is the spelling of them.
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No rich man can walk through the eye of a needle.
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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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All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary’s eyes, and Mary was blind.
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There’s no great loss without some small gain.
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A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.
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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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We’d never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started.
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