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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.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Each Other Goodness Happiness Help Kindness Love
The sweetness of life lies in usefulness, like honey deep in the heart of a clover bloom.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Heart Life Lying Sweet
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 WILDER

Believe Direction Happiness Personal Revolution Simplicity Thinking
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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Life Love Nature Simplicity Sweet Worth
There is nothing wrong with God’s plan that man should earn his bread by the sweat of his brow.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

God Himself Planning Wrong
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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Day Food Hungry Ourselves Starve Steal
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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Battle Better Earth Happiness Life Mindset Thankful
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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Enjoyment Extra Ourselves Philosophy Time
Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That’s a gift that you have received from God. Don’t waste it.
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Forever Love Suffering Wasted Time
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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Day Gold Water Wings
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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Live Opportunity Ourselves Place Possible Quiet Thinking
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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Afraid Animal Country Father Stay Wild
We must get rid of the habit of classing all women together politically and thinking of the ‘woman’s vote’ as one and indivisible.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Oneself Politics Togetherness Vote Woman
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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Deep End Heart Inspirational Land Travel Work Yourself
Life begins at eighty.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Beginning Deep Life One Liner Perspective
There’s no great loss without some small gain.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Greatness Loss Small

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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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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