“This earthly life is a battle,' said Ma. 'If it isn't one thing to contend with, it's another. It always has been so, and it always will be. The sooner you make up your mind to that, the better off you are, and more thankful for your pleasures.”
More from Laura Ingalls Wilder
“Politicians, they take pleasure a-prying into a man's affairs and I aimed to please 'em.”
“So to the end when life’s dim shadows fall, Love will be found the sweetest song of all.”
“The candle-light was dim, as though the darkness were trying to put it out.”
“There was no time to lose, no time to waste in rest or play. The life of the earth comes…”