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 WILDERSome old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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Home is the nicest word there is.
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Every job is good if you do your best and work hard. A man who works hard stinks only to the ones that have nothing to do but smell.
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The true way to live is to enjoy every moment as it passes, and surely it is in the everyday things around us that the beauty of life lies.
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Let your joy scream across the pain.
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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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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. No one ever overcomes difficulties by going at them in a hesitant, doubtful way.
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The only stupid thing about words is the spelling of them.
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Remember well, and bear in mind, a constant friend is hard to find.
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Did you ever think how a bit of land shows the character of the owner?
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The uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers.
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Vices are simply overworked virtues.
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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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All those golden autumn days the sky was full of wings. Wings beating low over the blue water of Silver Lake, wings beating high in the blue air far above it bearing them all away to the green fields in the South.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.
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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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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’d never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started.
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That which is the wonder of one age is the commonplace of the next.
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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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