We’d never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERWhen 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.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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There’s no great loss without some small gain.
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A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 had no choice. Sadness was a dangerous as panthers and bears. the wilderness needs your whole attention.
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Did you ever think how a bit of land shows the character of the owner?
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Courage and kindness, loyalty, truth, and helpfulness are always the same and always needed.
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Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.
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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 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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