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 WilderRead
We who live in quiet places have the opportunity to become acquainted with ourselves, to think our own thoughts and live our own lives in a way that is not possible for those keeping up with the crowd.
Interpretation
Living in quiet environments allows deeper self-reflection and personal authenticity.
This quote emphasizes the importance of solitude and quietness in fostering self-awareness and individuality. Laura Ingalls Wilder suggests that those who retreat from the hustle and bustle of societal expectations can engage in meaningful introspection, leading to a more genuine understanding of themselves and their values, which may be lost amidst the distractions of conforming to the crowd.
In practice
In a motivational speech about the benefits of mindfulness and solitude.
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.
It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.
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.
Every job is good if you do your best and work hard. A man who works hard stinks only to the ones that have nothing to do but smell.
When the fiddle had stopped singing Laura called out softly, "What are days of auld lang syne, Pa?" "They are the days of a long time ago, Laura," Pa said. "Go to sleep, now." But Laura lay awake a little while, listening to Pa's fiddle softly playing and to the lonely sound of the wind in the Big Woods,… She was glad that the cozy house, and Pa and Ma and the firelight and the music, were now. They could not be forgotten, she thought, because now is now. It can never be a long time ago.
Surfing's one of the few sports that you look ahead to see what's behind.
Life seems to be a process of replacing one anxiety with another and substituting one desire for another--which is not to say that we should never strive to overcome any of our anxieties or fulfil any of our desires, but rather to suggest that we should perhaps build into our strivings an awareness of the way our goals promise us a respite and a resolution that they cannot, by definition, deliver.
Never in all their history have men been able truly to conceive of the world as one: a single sphere, a globe, having the qualities of a globe, a round earth in which all the directions eventually meet, in which there is no center because every point, or none, is center - an equal earth which all men occupy as equals. The airman's earth, if free men make it, will be truly round: a globe in practice, not in theory.
The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men, and His compulsion is our liberation.
In one word, this ideal is that you are divine.
For me, being raised in a free America made all the difference.
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