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

Let's be cheerful! We have no more right to steal the brightness out of the day for our own family than we have to steal the purse of a stranger.

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

Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.

Oh no, I never do much ironing, except the outside clothes. We must not iron out the fresh air and sunshine, you know. It is much more healthful not to, the doctors say.” Seriously, there is something very refreshing about sheets and pillow slips just fresh from the line, after being washed and dried in the sun and air. Just try them that way and see if your sleep is not sweeter.

Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.

The only stupid thing about words is the spelling of them.