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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

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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Enjoyment Extra Ourselves Philosophy Time
People used to have time to live and enjoy themselves, but there is no time anymore for anything but work, work, work.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Enjoy Live People Time Work
Did you ever think how a bit of land shows the character of the owner?
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Appearance Character Thinking Yourself
These happy golden years are passing by, these happy golden years.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Gold Happiness Moments Time
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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Better Childhood Growth Heart Spirit
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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Live Opportunity Ourselves Place Possible Quiet Thinking
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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Fever Home Short Sick Visit Wrong Yourself
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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Easy Father Home Need Quick Weapon
The world seems a lonesome place when mother has passed away and only memories of her are left.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Herself Lonely Memories Mom Place World
Life begins at eighty.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Beginning Deep Life One Liner Perspective
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 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
All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Myself True
Vices are simply overworked virtues.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Simplicity Vice Virtue Work
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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Build Exception Father Home Need Ourselves
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

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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