Arnold Bennett Quotes & Sayings

“It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.”

“Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.”

“Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.”

“A first-rate organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.”

“It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.”

“Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.”

“Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality.”

“Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.”

“There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.”

“Always behave as if nothing had happened, no matter what has happened.”