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.
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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That which is the wonder of one age is the commonplace of the next.
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People used to have time to live and enjoy themselves, but there is no time anymore for anything but work, work, work.
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Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.
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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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No rich man can walk through the eye of a needle.
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Let your joy scream across the pain.
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It does not so much matter what happens. It is what one does when it happens that really counts.
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A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.
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Her blue eyes were still beautiful, but they did not know what was before them, and Mary herself could never look through them again to tell Laura what she was thinking without saying a word.
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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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We had no choice. Sadness was a dangerous as panthers and bears. the wilderness needs your whole attention.
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I understood….that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.
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Life begins at eighty.
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There’s no great loss without some small gain.
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There is a spirit in every home, a sort of composite spirit composed of the thoughts and feelings of the members of the family as a composite photograph is formed of the features of different individuals.
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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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Did you ever think how a bit of land shows the character of the owner?
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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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There the wild animals wandered and fed as though they were in a pasture that stretched much farther than a man could see, and there were no settlers. Only Indians lived there.
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The uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers.
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In order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times.
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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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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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Remember well, and bear in mind, a constant friend is hard to find.
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The only stupid thing about words is the spelling of them.
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