We heap up around us things that we do not need as the crow makes piles of glittering pebbles.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERWe heap up around us things that we do not need as the crow makes piles of glittering pebbles.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERVices are simply overworked virtues.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERThe wilderness needs your whole attention.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERI understood….that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERThe 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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDEREverything 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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERRemember 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 WILDERLet’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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERIt is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERNo one has ever achieved anything from the smallest to the greatest unless the dream was dreamed first.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERThe uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERWe 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 WILDERSome old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERThese times are too progressive. Everything has changed too fast. Railroads and telegraphs and kerosene and coal stoves — they’re good to have but the trouble is, folks get to depend on ’em.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERIf the members of a home are ill-temperered and quarrelsome, how quickly you feel it when you enter the house. You may not know just what is wrong, but you wish to make your visit short.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERIt 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