"Solitude causes us to write because it causes us to think."

-- Eugenie de Guerin

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Solitude Quotes

“We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts.”
“Helping someone come to a saving knowledge of Christ is the greatest achievement possible.”
“Gratefulness is the gallantry of a heart ready to rise to the opportunity a given moment offers.”
“Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather. He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.”
“One percent of ballplayers are leaders of men. The other 99 percent are followers of women.”
“The Canadian people are more practical than imaginative. Romantic tales and poetry would meet with less favour in their eyes than a good political article from their newspapers.”

Source : Susanna Moodie, John Wedderburn Dunbar Moodie (1968). “The Victoria magazine, 1847-1848”
“The harder the world, the fiercer the honour.”
“So I forcibly shove aside my prickles of pissed-off, which is easier than it sounds when millions of little sequined caffeine dancers are doing their big Broadway number on your internal stage. (Page 173)”

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