Arthur Christopher Benson Quotes

Congenial labor is essence of happiness.

The moment that any life however good stifles you you may be sure it isn't your real life.

It seems sometimes as if one were powerless to do any more from within to overcome troubles and that help must come from without.

There remain times when one can only endure. One lives on one doesn't die and the only thing that one can do is to fill one's mind and time as far as possible with the concerns of other people. It doesn't bring immediate peace but it brings the dawn nearer.

Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.

I never enter a new company without the hope that I may discover a friend perhaps the friend sitting there with an expectant smile. That hope survives a thousand disappointments.

The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes but its fears.

One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.