Quotes by Arthur Christopher Benson

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“Congenial labor is the secret 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 seems sometimes as if one were powerless to do any more from within to overcome troubles and that help must come from without.”

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

“Congenial labor is essence of happiness.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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 ...”

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