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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERAll 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.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.
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Vices are simply overworked virtues.
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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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These happy golden years are passing by, these happy golden years.
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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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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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Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.
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All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.
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The 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.
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The world seems a lonesome place when mother has passed away and only memories of her are left.
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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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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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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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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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The object of all education is to make folks fit to live.
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