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 WILDERIn 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.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.
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I understood….that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.
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Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.
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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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Courage and kindness, loyalty, truth, and helpfulness are always the same and always needed.
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These 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.
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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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All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.
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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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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.
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No one has ever achieved anything from the smallest to the greatest unless the dream was dreamed first.
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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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It does not so much matter what happens. It is what one does when it happens that really counts.
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It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
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No rich man can walk through the eye of a needle.
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