The only stupid thing about words is the spelling of them.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERIf 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.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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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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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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Remember well, and bear in mind, a constant friend is hard to find.
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This earthly life is a battle,’ said Ma. ‘If it isn’t one thing to contend with, it’s another. It always has been so, and it always will be. The sooner you make up your mind to that, the better off you are, and more thankful for your pleasures.
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We heap up around us things that we do not need as the crow makes piles of glittering pebbles.
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Let your joy scream across the pain.
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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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It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
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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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Home is the nicest word there is.
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Vices are simply overworked virtues.
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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.
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Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.
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I understood….that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.
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No one has ever achieved anything from the smallest to the greatest unless the dream was dreamed first.
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