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.
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 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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The world seems a lonesome place when mother has passed away and only memories of her are left.
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It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
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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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Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.
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The uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers.
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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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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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No one has ever achieved anything from the smallest to the greatest unless the dream was dreamed first.
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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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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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Once you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful happens.
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All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.
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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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Life begins at eighty.
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