50 quotes
Canadian writer (1874–1942)
“Everybody has. It wouldn't do for us to have all our dreams fulfilled. We would be as good as dead if we had nothing left to dream about.”
"I don't like places or people either that haven't any faults. I think that a truly perfect person would be very uninteresting."
on Philosophy
"Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful…"
on Relationships
"If you've brains it's better than beauty - brains last, beauty doesn't."
on Wisdom
"You may tire of reality but you never tire of dreams."
on Dreams
"We are never half so interesting when we have learned that language is given us to enable us to conceal our thoughts."
on Communication
"The body grows slowly and steadily but the soul grows by leaps and bounds. It may come to its full stature in an hour."
on Life
"Well, it all comes to this, there's no use trying to live in other people's opinions. The only thing to do is to live in our own."
"To love is easy and therefore common - but to understand - how rare it is!"
on Love
"That's all the freedom we can hope for - the freedom to choose our prison."
on Freedom
"Oh", she thought, "how horrible it is that people have to grow up-and marry-and change!"
"My pen shall heal, not hurt."
on Writing
"You have the itch for writing born in you. It's quite incurable. What are you going to do with it?"
"True friends are always together in spirit. (Anne Shirley)"
"...a little "appreciation" sometimes does quite as much good as all the conscientious "bringing up" in the world."
"The ghosts of things that never happened are worse than the ghosts of things that did."
"It is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable."
"No one can be free who has a thousand ancestors."
"Fancies are like shadows...you can't cage them, they're such wayward, dancing things."
on Imagination
"Mrs. Lynde says, 'Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed."
"He was so lonely that he laughed at himself."
