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. Laura Ingalls Wilder More Quotes by Laura Ingalls Wilder More Quotes From Laura Ingalls Wilder Let's be cheerful! We have no more right to steal the brightness out of the day for our own family than we have to steal the purse of a stranger. Laura Ingalls Wilder brightnesspursescheerful It does not so much matter what happens. It is what one does when it happens that really counts. Laura Ingalls Wilder perspectivematterdoe Life was not intended to be simply a round of work, no matter how interesting and important that work may be. A moment’s pause to watch the glory of a sunrise or a sunset is soul-satisfying, while a bird's song will set the steps to music all day long. Laura Ingalls Wilder sunsetsonglong Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it. Laura Ingalls Wilder wastesufferinglove I believe it would be much better for everyone if children were given their start in education at home. No one understands a child as well as his mother, and children are so different that they need individual training and study. A teacher with a roomful of pupils cannot do this. At home, too, they are in their mothers care. She can keep them from learning immoral things from other children. Laura Ingalls Wilder motherteacherchildren Laura felt a warmth inside her. It was very small, but it was strong. It was steady, like a tiny light in the dark, and it burned very low but no winds could make it flicker because it would not give up. Laura Ingalls Wilder giving-upstrongdark 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. Laura Ingalls Wilder autumngreen-fieldslakes Wild animals would not stay in a country where there were so many people. Pa did not like to stay, either. He liked a country where the wild animals lived without being afraid. Laura Ingalls Wilder animalcountrypeople 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. Laura Ingalls Wilder landchangeheart It is a good idea sometimes to think of the importance and dignity of our every-day duties. It keeps them from being so tiresome; besides, others are apt take us at our own valuation. Laura Ingalls Wilder dignityideasthinking The only stupid thing about words is the spelling of them. Laura Ingalls Wilder little-house-on-the-prairiespellingstupid 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. Laura Ingalls Wilder familyhomefeelings If only I had some grease I could fix some kind of a light," Ma considered. "We didn't lack for light when I was a girl before this newfangled kerosene was ever heard of." "That's so," said Pa. "These times are too progressive. Everything has changed too fast. Railroads and telegraph and kerosene and coal stoves--they're good things to have, but the trouble is, folks get to depend on 'em. Laura Ingalls Wilder greasegirllight 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 Wilder make-you-happykindnesshelping All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth. Laura Ingalls Wilder wholeliteraturetruth 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. Laura Ingalls Wilder coalrailroadsems 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. Laura Ingalls Wilder simplicitybelievethinking Pa did not like a country so old and worn out that the hunting was poor. He wanted to go west. For two years he had wanted to go west and take a homestead, but Ma did not want to leave the settled country. Laura Ingalls Wilder huntingcountryyears The object of all education is to make folks fit to live. Laura Ingalls Wilder folksfiteducation These happy golden years are passing by, these happy golden years. Laura Ingalls Wilder passing-bygoldenyears
