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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERWe heap up around us things that we do not need as the crow makes piles of glittering pebbles.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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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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We’d never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started.
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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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No rich man can walk through the eye of a needle.
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I understood….that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.
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Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time.
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Money hasn’t any value of its own; it represents the stored up energy of men and women and is really just someone’s promise to pay a certain amount of that energy.
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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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There is nothing wrong with God’s plan that man should earn his bread by the sweat of his brow.
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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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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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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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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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Home is the nicest word there is.
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