Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERThe wilderness needs your whole attention.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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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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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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Courage and kindness, loyalty, truth, and helpfulness are always the same and always needed.
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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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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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We’d never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started.
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That which is the wonder of one age is the commonplace of the next.
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If 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.
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A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.
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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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No rich man can walk through the eye of a needle.
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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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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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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary’s eyes, and Mary was blind.
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The uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers.
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