Life was not intended to be ...

Life was not intended to be simply a round of work, no matter how interesting and important that work may be. A moment’s pause to watch the glory of a sunrise or a sunset is soul-satisfying, while a bird's song will set the steps to music all day long.
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 Laura Ingalls Wilder

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The world seems a lonesome place when mother has passed away and only memories of her are left.
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 Laura Ingalls Wilder
I believe it would be much better for everyone if children were given their start in education at home. No one understands a child as well as his mother, and children are so different that they need individual training and study. A teacher with a roomful of pupils cannot do this. At home, too, they are in their mothers care. She can keep them from learning immoral things from other children.
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 Laura Ingalls Wilder
Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.
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 Laura Ingalls Wilder
In order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times.
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 Laura Ingalls Wilder
No one has ever achieved anything from the smallest to the greatest unless the dream was dreamed first.
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 Laura Ingalls Wilder