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“Still, it was discouraging to think that she would spend the rest of her life being ignored and neglected, unable to find a partner who truly cared about her, while basically being a single woman who did a man's laundry.
If she was going to be single, she didn't want the extra laundry to do.”
― Just a Cowboy's Best Friend
If she was going to be single, she didn't want the extra laundry to do.”
― Just a Cowboy's Best Friend
“But there was something inside of every kid who wanted his parents to be proud of him.”
― Better Together
― Better Together
“Failure makes you stronger, if you let it.” “Exactly. And God knows that. Sometimes, He leads us through a door that results in failure. It’s failure that we would have avoided if we had avoided the open door, but we would have avoided the lessons - lessons that make us better people. More compassionate people. People who see things from others’ perspectives and notice things that we might not have known before. Just a whole wealth of experiences and ideas and attitudes and actions that we learn when things don’t go the way we want them to.”
― The Farmer's Hometown Girl
― The Farmer's Hometown Girl
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“The American character, and the American dream, could never be disentangled, and ultimately the latter would go only as far as the former would take it.”
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“A man's character is like his house. If he tears boards off his house and burns them to keep himself warm and comfortable, his house soon becomes a ruin. If he tells lies to be able to do the things he shouldn't do but wants to, his character will soon become a ruin. A man with a ruined character is a shame on the face of the earth.”
― Father and I Were Ranchers
― Father and I Were Ranchers
“Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.”
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“I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances. a”
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