The sweetness of life lies in usefulness, like honey deep in the heart of a clover bloom.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERSome old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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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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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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Remember well, and bear in mind, a constant friend is hard to find.
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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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These happy golden years are passing by, these happy golden years.
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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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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary’s eyes, and Mary was blind.
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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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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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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.
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The uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers.
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No rich man can walk through the eye of a needle.
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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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We must get rid of the habit of classing all women together politically and thinking of the ‘woman’s vote’ as one and indivisible.
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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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