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 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.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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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.
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There is no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to go home.
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In order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times.
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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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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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Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.
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Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.
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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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We’d never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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