Wednesday, May 11, 2016

Inspirational Quotes

“The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast,
and you miss all you are traveling for.” - Louis L'Amour

“No one can "get" an education, for of necessity
education is a continuing process.” - Louis L'Amour

“Actually, all education is self-education. A teacher is only a guide, to point out the way, and no school, no matter how excellent, can give you education. What you receive is like the outlines in a child’s coloring book. You must fill in the colors yourself.” - Louis L'Amour

“I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things
of life which are the real ones after all.” - 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 have courage when things go wrong.”
- Laura Ingalls Wilder

“Home is the nicest word there is.” - Laura Ingalls Wilder

“The 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 Wilder

“There is nothing wrong with God's plan that man should earn his
bread by the sweat of his brow.” - Laura Ingalls Wilder 

"So much depends upon the homemakers. I sometimes wonder if they are so busy now with other things that they are forgetting the importance of this special work." - Laura Ingalls Wilder

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart." - Helen Keller

“The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.”
- Louisa May Alcott

“You don’t need scores of suitors. You need only one… if he’s the right one.” - Louisa May Alcott

"There is always light behind the clouds.” - Louisa May Alcott

“Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.”
 - A. A. Milne

“Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in our hearts.” - A. A. Milne

“I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.”
- Abraham Lincoln

"And in the end it's not the years in your life that count but the life in your years." - Abraham Lincoln

"The world has enough women who know how to be smart. It needs women who are willing to be simple." - Peter Marshall

"It is a far, far better thing in the realms of morals to be old fashioned, than to be ultra-modern."
- Peter Marshall

"For the hand that rocks the cradle is that hand that rules the world." - William Ross Wallace

"If you ain't dreaming, you ain't living." - Betty West

7 comments:

  1. Love them all! And they're so true! :-)

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  2. Wise, simple words by wise, simple people :) Louis L'Amour, Louisa May Alcott and Laura Ingalls Wilder always said things that makes one think. Of course Lincoln is an all-time favorite, but they are all good quotes! :D

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