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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.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

The sweetness of life lies in usefulness, like honey deep in the heart of a clover bloom.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Heart Life Lying Sweet
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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Friendship Goodness Progression Time Trouble
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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Dignity Goodness Ideas Important Ourselves Time Value
The real things haven’t changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Best Change Courage Honesty Reality Simplicity Wrong
Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary’s eyes, and Mary was blind.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Blind Eyes Worst
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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Beautiful Eyes Herself Thinking
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 WILDER

Difficult Doubt Fear Heart Help Hesitant Way
Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That’s a gift that you have received from God. Don’t waste it.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Forever Love Suffering Wasted Time
A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Darkness Difficult Goodness Laughter Oneself
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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Attention Organization Pay Trouble
Vices are simply overworked virtues.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Simplicity Vice Virtue Work
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 WILDER

Deep End Heart Inspirational Land Travel Work Yourself
The wilderness needs your whole attention.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Attention Need Wild
No one has ever achieved anything from the smallest to the greatest unless the dream was dreamed first.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Achievement Dreams Greatness Inspirational Motivational
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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Animal Food Live Man See Wild
There is no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to go home.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Comfortable Home Journey Travel

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