They say that time heals all wounds but all it’s done so far is give me more time to think about how much I miss you.
—Laura Ingalls Wilder
The real things haven’t changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures and to be cheerful and have courage when things go wrong.
—Laura Ingalls Wilder
A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.
—Laura Ingalls Wilder
Topics: Laughter
It is a good idea sometimes to think of the importance and dignity of our everyday duties. It keeps them from being so tiresome.
—Laura Ingalls Wilder
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.
—Laura Ingalls Wilder
Topics: Christmas
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
Topics: Weather
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
Topics: Autumn
There’s no great loss without some small gain.
—Laura Ingalls Wilder
The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they’re organized for.
—Laura Ingalls Wilder
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. It is the simple things of life that make living worthwhile, the sweet fundamental things such as love and duty, work and rest and living close to nature.
—Laura Ingalls Wilder
The sweetness of life lies in usefulness, like honey deep in the heart of a clover bloom.
—Laura Ingalls Wilder
Let your joy scream across the pain.
—Laura Ingalls Wilder
Topics: Adversity
No one has ever achieved anything from the smallest to the greatest unless the dream was dreamed first.
—Laura Ingalls Wilder
Topics: Achieving, Dreams
I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
—Laura Ingalls Wilder
Topics: Little Things, Things, Simplicity
Now is now. It can never be a long time ago.
—Laura Ingalls Wilder
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