As the years pass, I am coming more and more to understand that it is the common, everyday blessings of our common everyday lives for which we should be particularly grateful. They are the things that fill our lives with comfort and our hearts with gladness -- just the pure air to breathe and the strength to breath it; just warmth and shelter and home folks; just plain food that gives us strength; the bright sunshine on a cold day; and a cool breeze when the day is warm.
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 Ingalls Wilder
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 Ingalls Wilder
The uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers. - Laura Ingalls Wilder
The uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers.
Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery. - Laura Ingalls Wilder
Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.
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
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.
It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all. - Laura Ingalls Wilder
It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing. - Laura Ingalls Wilder
A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.
Once you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful happens. - Laura Ingalls Wilder
Once you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful happens.
We'd never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started. - Laura Ingalls Wilder
We'd never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started.
Never bet your money on another man's game. - Laura Ingalls Wilder
Never bet your money on another man's game.
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