The days have never been long enough to do the things I would like to do. Every year has held more of interest than the year before.
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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Home is the nicest word there is.
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In order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times.
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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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Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.
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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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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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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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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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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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All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.
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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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Never bet your money on another man’s game.
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The only stupid thing about words is the spelling of them.
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It does not so much matter what happens. It is what one does when it happens that really counts.
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Courage and kindness, loyalty, truth, and helpfulness are always the same and always needed.
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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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There is a spirit in every home, a sort of composite spirit composed of the thoughts and feelings of the members of the family as a composite photograph is formed of the features of different individuals.
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The object of all education is to make folks fit to live.
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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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Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.
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Did you ever think how a bit of land shows the character of the owner?
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Let your joy scream across the pain.
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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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We heap up around us things that we do not need as the crow makes piles of glittering pebbles.
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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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Life begins at eighty.
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