People used to have time to live and enjoy themselves, but there is no time anymore for anything but work, work, work.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERCourage and kindness, loyalty, truth, and helpfulness are always the same and always needed.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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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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Life begins at eighty.
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I believe we would be happier to have a personal revolution in our individual lives and go back to simpler living and more direct thinking.
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That which is the wonder of one age is the commonplace of the next.
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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 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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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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Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.
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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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We had no choice. Sadness was a dangerous as panthers and bears. the wilderness needs your whole attention.
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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 sweetness of life lies in usefulness, like honey deep in the heart of a clover bloom.
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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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Never bet your money on another man’s game.
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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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