Let your joy scream across the pain.

Persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds. -Laura Ingalls Wilder, author (1867-1957)

We'd never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started.

In order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times.

When Pa was at home the gun always lay across those two wooden hooks above the door. ... The gun was always loaded, and always above the door so that Pa could get it quickly and easily, any time he needed a gun.

We had no choice. Sadness was a dangerous as panthers and bears. the wilderness needs your whole attention.

In these days when we feed those who are not hungry, we are stealing from those who are starving, even though the food is our own.