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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERThere is no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to go home.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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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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When Pa was at home the gun always lay across those two wooden hooks above the door. … The gun was always loaded, and always above the door so that Pa could get it quickly and easily, any time he needed a gun.
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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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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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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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Home is the nicest word there is.
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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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Everything from the little house was in the wagon, except the beds and tables and chairs. They did not need to take these, because Pa could always make new ones.
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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 world seems a lonesome place when mother has passed away and only memories of her are left.
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I understood….that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.
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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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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary’s eyes, and Mary was blind.
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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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