The true way to live is to enjoy every moment as it passes, and surely it is in the everyday things around us that the beauty of life lies.
There was no time to lose, no time to waste in rest or play. The life of the earth comes up with a rush in the springtime.
The snug log house looked just as it always had. It did not seem to know they were going away.
One day in the woods he met an Indian. They stood in the wet, cold woods and looked at each other, and they could not talk because they did not know each other’s words
One day in the woods he met an Indian. They stood in the wet, cold woods and looked at each other, and they could not talk because they did not know each other’s words.
Persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds. -Laura Ingalls Wilder, author (1867-1957)
We had no choice. Sadness was a dangerous as panthers and bears. the wilderness needs your whole attention.
Ma had been very fashionable, before she married Pa, and a dressmaker had made her clothes.
A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.
There is no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to go home.
It was muskets that won the Revolution. And don’t forget it was axes, and plows that made this country.- Father Wilder
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.
Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat. In our mad rush for progress and modern improvements let’s be sure we take along with us all the old-fashioned things worth while.
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 Christmastime.
Politicians, they take pleasure a-prying into a man’s affairs and I aimed to please ’em.
I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
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.
Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That’s a gift that you have received from God. Don’t waste it.
Every job is good if you do your best and work hard. A man who works hard stinks only to the ones that have nothing to do but smell.
Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I will remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don’t remember me at all.
It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.