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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERHer 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.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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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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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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I understood….that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.
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We who live in quiet places have the opportunity to become acquainted with ourselves, to think our own thoughts and live our own lives in a way that is not possible for those keeping up with the crowd.
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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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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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There’s no great loss without some small gain.
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Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That’s a gift that you have received from God. Don’t waste it.
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All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.
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Did you ever think how a bit of land shows the character of the owner?
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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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We must get rid of the habit of classing all women together politically and thinking of the ‘woman’s vote’ as one and indivisible.
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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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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 uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers.
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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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Remember well, and bear in mind, a constant friend is hard to find.
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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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No rich man can walk through the eye of a needle.
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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 days have never been long enough to do the things I would like to do. Every year has held more of interest than the year before.
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary’s eyes, and Mary was blind.
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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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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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Life begins at eighty.
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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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