She heard pa shouting,"Jiminy crickets!It's raining fish-hooks and hammer handles!
Laura Ingalls WilderThere is nothing wrong with God's plan that man should earn his bread by the sweat of his brow.
Laura Ingalls WilderNever bet your money on another man's game.
Laura Ingalls WilderThe 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.
Laura Ingalls WilderAs 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.
Laura Ingalls WilderTags: comfort sunshine everyday-life grateful
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 WilderTags: progress america simplicity progressivism
A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.
Laura Ingalls WilderTags: book
Persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds. -Laura Ingalls Wilder, author (1867-1957)
Laura Ingalls WilderTags: perception injustice society culture expectations fairness
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 WilderThis 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 WilderTags: life
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