The sweetness of life lies in usefulness, like honey deep in the heart of a clover bloom.
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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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 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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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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Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.
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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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There’s no great loss without some small gain.
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Vices are simply overworked virtues.
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Remember well, and bear in mind, a constant friend is hard to find.
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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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Courage and kindness, loyalty, truth, and helpfulness are always the same and always needed.
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A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.
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If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it, I guess it’s pretty nearly bound to happen, wind and weather permitting.
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Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I’ll remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don’t remember me at all.
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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 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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