A. C. Benson Quotes :
“Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.”
“I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one can live in the world without sooner or later taking the voyage.”
“All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality—the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.”
“I am sure that the truest end of life is to know the love of God.”
“The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.”
“The essential lesson of this life is to learn independence; to discover one’s own resources; to know one’s own power.”
“Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.”
“People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after.”
“I am convinced that the majority of people are capable of moving into a higher sphere, but are hampered by environment and external circumstances.”
“Much of our self-esteem comes from the belief that we are needed.”
“The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.”
“The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.”
“It is the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.”
“The truth is that it is the yearning for a transcendent purpose that brings joy.”
“A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success.”
“I think that all artistic activity should be a purging process. I think that we should draw forth from ourselves all that is most human, most universal.”
“What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.”
“One’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.”
“The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.”
“A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is better than the view from the base, and it steadily becomes finer as the horizon expands.”
“I do not care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members.”
“As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.”
“You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.”
“It is not how old you are, but how you are old.”
“Much of our self-esteem comes from the belief that we are needed.”
“We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.”
“The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.”
“I believe that each of us comes from the creator trailing wisps of glory.”
“A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying that he is wiser today than yesterday.”
“The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.”
“I have always believed that there is more good than evil in this world.”
“The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”
“Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.”
“The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.”
“The essence of happiness is this: to seek to be worthy of admiration rather than to seek it.”
“I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one can live in the world without sooner or later taking the voyage.”
“Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.”
“People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after.”
“It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little – do what you can.”
“The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.”
“A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is better than the view from the base, and it steadily becomes finer as the horizon expands.”
“I do not care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members.”
“I think that all artistic activity should be a purging process. I think that we should draw forth from ourselves all that is most human, most universal.”
“As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.”
“You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.”
“Much of our self-esteem comes from the belief that we are needed.”
“The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.”
“The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.”
“Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.”
“The essence of happiness is this: to seek to be worthy of admiration rather than to seek it.”
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