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 had no choice. Sadness was a dangerous as panthers and bears. the wilderness needs your whole attention.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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Remember well, and bear in mind, a constant friend is hard to find.
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The object of all education is to make folks fit to live.
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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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Home is the nicest word there is.
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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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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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Money hasn’t any value of its own; it represents the stored up energy of men and women and is really just someone’s promise to pay a certain amount of that energy.
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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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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.
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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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We’d never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started.
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The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they’re organized for.
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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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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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