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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDEROnce you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful happens.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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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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Home is the nicest word there is.
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Life begins at eighty.
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Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time.
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These times are too progressive. Everything has changed too fast. Railroads and telegraphs and kerosene and coal stoves — they’re good to have but the trouble is, folks get to depend on ’em.
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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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I understood….that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.
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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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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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Remember well, and bear in mind, a constant friend is hard to find.
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We had no choice. Sadness was a dangerous as panthers and bears. the wilderness needs your whole attention.
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It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
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Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.
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No rich man can walk through the eye of a needle.
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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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