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 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.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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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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Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.
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Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That’s a gift that you have received from God. Don’t waste it.
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The sweetness of life lies in usefulness, like honey deep in the heart of a clover bloom.
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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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We heap up around us things that we do not need as the crow makes piles of glittering pebbles.
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary’s eyes, and Mary was blind.
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Home is the nicest word there is.
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If 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.
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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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Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.
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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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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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If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it, I guess it’s pretty nearly bound to happen, wind and weather permitting.
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Remember well, and bear in mind, a constant friend is hard to find.
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