We’d never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERWild 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.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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The uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers.
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Did you ever think how a bit of land shows the character of the owner?
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A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.
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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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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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The only stupid thing about words is the spelling of them.
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The object of all education is to make folks fit to live.
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It is a good idea sometimes to think of the importance and dignity of our every-day duties. It keeps them from being so tiresome; besides, others are apt take us at our own valuation.
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In order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times.
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Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.
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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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We go lightheartedly on our way, never thinking that by a careless word or two we may have altered the whole course of human lives, for some person will take our advice and use it.
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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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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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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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