I understood….that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERThe 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.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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The wilderness needs your whole attention.
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In order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times.
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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.
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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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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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Did you ever think how a bit of land shows the character of the owner?
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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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It is the simple things of life that make living worthwhile, the sweet fundamental things such as love and duty, work and rest, and living close to nature.
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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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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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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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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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Vices are simply overworked virtues.
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There is no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to go home.
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All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.
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