A Quote by Eugenie de Guerin

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

Eugenie de Guerin

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Because Causes Solitude Think Us Write

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Eugenie de Guerin
French - Poet
1805 - May 31, 1848

I'd love to be able to write an in-depth piece of what causes men like [Richard] Nixon and [H.R.]Haldeman and [John] Ehrlichman and all the rest of them not only to run, but what causes us to vote for them.

Rod Serling

Gratitude causes us to no longer desire a different life. Instead, it causes us to make the most of the one life we already have.

Josh Becker

Pleasure causes us to do base actions and pain causes us to abstain from doing noble actions.

Aristotle

Love and intimacy are at the roots of what makes us sick and what makes us well, what causes sadness and what brings happiness, what makes us suffer and what leads to healing...I am not aware of any other factor in medicine- not diet, not smoking, not exercise, not stress, not genetics, not drugs, not surgery- that has a greater impact on our quality of life, incidence of illness and premature death from all causes.

Dean Ornish

To seek "causes" of poverty in this way is to enter an intellectual dead end because poverty has no causes. Only prosperity has causes.

Jane Jacobs

People don't write about kids; you have to give them a lot of freedom, and that causes anarchy and that causes farce.

Michael Ondaatje

We all have different causes that touch us emotionally and I believe anybody should fight for a cause they believe in. I'm a Muslim, I'm African, so certain causes will affect me more than they do other people.

Demba Ba

There seems to be something in the human soul that causes us to think less of ourselves every time we do something wrong... And maybe it is good for us to feel that way. It may make us more sensitive to what we do wrong and move us to repent and grow.

Harold S. Kushner

The selfie, like all technology, causes us to reflect on our human values. This is a good thing because it challenges us to figure out what they really are.

Sherry Turkle

Pride causes us to care more about what our non-Christian friends think of us than what God will do to them in their sin.

Mark Dever

It is weakness which makes us hate an enemy and seek revenge, and it is idleness that pacifies us and causes us to neglect it.

Jean de la Bruyere

What is allowed us is disagreeable, what is denied us causes us intense desire.

Ovid

To be ourselves causes us to be exiled by many others, and yet to comply with what others want causes us to be exiled from ourselves.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Of causes, some are complete and primary, others auxiliary and proximate. Hence, when we say that all things come about through fate by antecedent causes, we do not mean this to be understood as 'by complete and primary causes,' but 'by auxiliary and proximate causes.'