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. Laura Ingalls Wilder More Quotes by Laura Ingalls Wilder More Quotes From Laura Ingalls Wilder Oh no, I never do much ironing, except the outside clothes. We must not iron out the fresh air and sunshine, you know. It is much more healthful not to, the doctors say.” Seriously, there is something very refreshing about sheets and pillow slips just fresh from the line, after being washed and dried in the sun and air. Just try them that way and see if your sleep is not sweeter. Laura Ingalls Wilder sunshine doctors sleep 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. Laura Ingalls Wilder hungry hunger stealing We had no choice. Sadness was a dangerous as panthers and bears. the wilderness needs your whole attention. Laura Ingalls Wilder sadness choices needs 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. Laura Ingalls Wilder money men promise Things and persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds. How unconsciously we judge others by the light that is within ourselves, condemning or approving them by our own conception of right and wrong, honor and dishonor! We show by our judgment just what the light within us is. Laura Ingalls Wilder light judging mind In order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times. Laura Ingalls Wilder enjoy absence order The world seems a lonesome place when mother has passed away and only memories of her are left. Laura Ingalls Wilder mother memories world Life begins at eighty. Laura Ingalls Wilder eighty age A long time ago, when all the grandfathers and grandmothers of today were little boys and little girls or very small babies, or perhaps not even born, Pa and Ma and Mary and Laura and Baby Carrie left their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin. Laura Ingalls Wilder grandmother girl baby 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 change work beauty People used to have time to live and enjoy themselves, but there is no time anymore for anything but work, work, work. Laura Ingalls Wilder enjoy used people We go lightheartedly on our way, never thinking that by a careless word or two we may have altered the whole course of human lives, for some person will take our advice and use it. Laura Ingalls Wilder advice two thinking Vices are simply overworked virtues. Laura Ingalls Wilder shortcomings virtue vices The wilderness needs your whole attention. Laura Ingalls Wilder panthers attention needs The uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers. Laura Ingalls Wilder fearless uplifting heart Never bet your money on another man's game. Laura Ingalls Wilder another-man games men Let your joy scream across the pain. Laura Ingalls Wilder scream pain joy [On dishonesty:] If there were a cry of 'stop thief!' we would all stand still. Laura Ingalls Wilder dishonesty thieves cry Mary and Carrie and baby Grace and Ma had all had scarlet fever. The Nelsons across the creek had had it too, so there had been no one to help Pa and Laura. Laura Ingalls Wilder fever grace baby There the wild animals wandered and fed as though they were in a pasture that stretched much farther than a man could see, and there were no settlers. Only Indians lived there. Laura Ingalls Wilder feds animal men
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