We heap up around us things that we do not need as the crow makes piles of glittering pebbles.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERThere is no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to go home.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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Vices are simply overworked virtues.
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I believe we would be happier to have a personal revolution in our individual lives and go back to simpler living and more direct thinking.
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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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Courage and kindness, loyalty, truth, and helpfulness are always the same and always needed.
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That which is the wonder of one age is the commonplace of the next.
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Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.
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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 go lightheartedly on our way, never thinking that by a careless word or two we may have altered the whole course of human lives, for some person will take our advice and use it.
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It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
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Home is the nicest word there is.
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The wilderness needs your whole attention.
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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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I understood….that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.
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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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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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A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.
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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.
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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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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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Her blue eyes were still beautiful, but they did not know what was before them, and Mary herself could never look through them again to tell Laura what she was thinking without saying a word.
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Once you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful happens.
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In order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times.
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There’s no great loss without some small gain.
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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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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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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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