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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERThere is nothing wrong with God’s plan that man should earn his bread by the sweat of his brow.
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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In order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times.
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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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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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I understood….that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.
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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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Let your joy scream across the pain.
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There’s no great loss without some small gain.
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The only stupid thing about words is the spelling of them.
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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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No rich man can walk through the eye of a needle.
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Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That’s a gift that you have received from God. Don’t waste it.
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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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Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.
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