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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

This earthly life is a battle,’ said Ma. ‘If it isn’t one thing to contend with, it’s another. It always has been so, and it always will be. The sooner you make up your mind to that, the better off you are, and more thankful for your pleasures.
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Battle Better Earth Happiness Life Mindset Thankful
Money hasn’t any value of its own; it represents the stored up energy of men and women and is really just someone’s promise to pay a certain amount of that energy.
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Energy Money Pay Promise Representation Value
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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Different Feeling Home Member Photograph Spirit
No rich man can walk through the eye of a needle.
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Eyes Man Rich Walk
In these days when we feed those who are not hungry, we are stealing from those who are starving, even though the food is our own.
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Day Food Hungry Ourselves Starve Steal
It does not so much matter what happens. It is what one does when it happens that really counts.
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Count Oneself Work
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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Enjoyment Extra Ourselves Philosophy Time
That which is the wonder of one age is the commonplace of the next.
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Age Common Oneself Place Wonder
We’d never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started.
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Beginning Start Time Wait
Everything from the little house was in the wagon, except the beds and tables and chairs. They did not need to take these, because Pa could always make new ones.
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Build Exception Father Home Need Ourselves
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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Each Other Goodness Happiness Help Kindness Love
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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Cheerful Family Ourselves Purse Right Steal Stranger
There’s no great loss without some small gain.
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Greatness Loss Small
In order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times.
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Absence Enjoyment Feeling Order Time
Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That’s a gift that you have received from God. Don’t waste it.
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Forever Love Suffering Wasted Time
There is no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to go home.
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Comfortable Home Journey Travel

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