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.
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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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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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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Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That’s a gift that you have received from God. Don’t waste it.
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The uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers.
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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 is a good idea sometimes to think of the importance and dignity of our every-day duties. It keeps them from being so tiresome; besides, others are apt take us at our own valuation.
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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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It does not so much matter what happens. It is what one does when it happens that really counts.
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Life begins at eighty.
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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 nothing wrong with God’s plan that man should earn his bread by the sweat of his brow.
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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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These happy golden years are passing by, these happy golden years.
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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 uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers. No one ever overcomes difficulties by going at them in a hesitant, doubtful way.
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