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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERNever bet your money on another man’s game.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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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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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 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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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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There is nothing wrong with God’s plan that man should earn his bread by the sweat of his brow.
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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 wilderness needs your whole attention.
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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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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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That which is the wonder of one age is the commonplace of the next.
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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 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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Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.
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The only stupid thing about words is the spelling of them.
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Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.
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