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 WILDERThe uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers. No one ever overcomes difficulties by going at them in a hesitant, doubtful way.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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The days have never been long enough to do the things I would like to do. Every year has held more of interest than the year before.
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Wild animals would not stay in a country where there were so many people. Pa did not like to stay, either. He liked a country where the wild animals lived without being afraid.
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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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The world seems a lonesome place when mother has passed away and only memories of her are left.
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Did you ever think how a bit of land shows the character of the owner?
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Courage and kindness, loyalty, truth, and helpfulness are always the same and always needed.
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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 a good idea sometimes to think of the importance and dignity of our every-day duties. It keeps them from being so tiresome; besides, others are apt take us at our own valuation.
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Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.
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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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That which is the wonder of one age is the commonplace of the next.
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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.
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There is nothing wrong with God’s plan that man should earn his bread by the sweat of his brow.
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If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it, I guess it’s pretty nearly bound to happen, wind and weather permitting.
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The wilderness needs your whole attention.
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