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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERThe wilderness needs your whole attention.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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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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Let your joy scream across the pain.
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These happy golden years are passing by, these happy golden years.
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All those golden autumn days the sky was full of wings. Wings beating low over the blue water of Silver Lake, wings beating high in the blue air far above it bearing them all away to the green fields in the South.
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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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The world seems a lonesome place when mother has passed away and only memories of her are left.
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No one has ever achieved anything from the smallest to the greatest unless the dream was dreamed first.
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Did you ever think how a bit of land shows the character of the owner?
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When Pa was at home the gun always lay across those two wooden hooks above the door. … The gun was always loaded, and always above the door so that Pa could get it quickly and easily, any time he needed a gun.
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Home is the nicest word there is.
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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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The sweetness of life lies in usefulness, like honey deep in the heart of a clover bloom.
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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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The object of all education is to make folks fit to live.
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The uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers.
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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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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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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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It does not so much matter what happens. It is what one does when it happens that really counts.
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That which is the wonder of one age is the commonplace of the next.
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary’s eyes, and Mary was blind.
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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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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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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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Life begins at eighty.
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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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