I understood….that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERIt does not so much matter what happens. It is what one does when it happens that really counts.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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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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Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.
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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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Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That’s a gift that you have received from God. Don’t waste it.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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Never bet your money on another man’s game.
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In order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times.
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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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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary’s eyes, and Mary was blind.
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The world seems a lonesome place when mother has passed away and only memories of her are left.
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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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