Arthur Christopher Benson Quotes

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.

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

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

Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.

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

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.

Congenial labor is essence of happiness.

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.

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

Readjusting is a painful process but most of us need it at one time or another.

It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see not perhaps the way out but the way in.