Arnold Bennett

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

#Happiness #Attitude #Positive Thinking

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

#Change #Moving On #Thought Provoking

“Every scene, even the commonest, is wonderful, if only one can detach oneself, casting off all memory of use and custom and behold it, as it were, for the first time.”
-- Arnold Bennett

#Memories #Use #Casting

“Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.”
-- Arnold Bennett

#Music #Wisdom #Dope

“A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne or high heels, and one must be prepared to suffer for it.”
-- Arnold Bennett

#Funny #High Heels #Suffering

“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.”
-- Arnold Bennett

#Life #Happiness #Happy

“Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste.”
-- Arnold Bennett

#Character #Taste

“The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense.”
-- Arnold Bennett

#Inspirational #Self Confidence #Gains

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

#Friendship #God #Judging

“The price of Justice is eternal publicity.”
-- Arnold Bennett

#Justice #Publicity #Eternity

“The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realizing that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.”
-- Arnold Bennett

#Inspirational #Spring #Believe

“The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else.”
-- Arnold Bennett

#Worry #Trying #Melancholy

“The proper, wise balancing of one's whole life may depend upon the feasibility of a cup of tea at an unusual hour.”
-- Arnold Bennett

#Wise #Tea #May

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

#Success #Views #Hills

“To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.”
-- Arnold Bennett

#Creativity #Artist #Soul

“Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.”
-- Arnold Bennett

#Money #Littles #Amusing

“You are not in charge of the universe; you are in charge of yourself.”
-- Arnold Bennett

#Universe

“Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature, especially your own.”
-- Arnold Bennett

#Littles #Too Much #Human Nature

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

#Firsts #Unexpected #Planning

“You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose.”
-- Arnold Bennett

#Hours #Leafs #Turns

“The chief beauty about time is that you cannot waste it in advance. The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you, as perfect, as unspoiled, as if you had never wasted or misapplied a single moment in all your life. You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose.”
-- Arnold Bennett

#Motivational #New Year #Lying

“Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man.”
-- Arnold Bennett

#Book #Reading #Men

“The pleasure of doing a thing in the same way at the same time every day, and savoring it, should be noted.”
-- Arnold Bennett

#Happiness #Way #Pleasure

“The war years count double. Things and people not actively in use age twice as fast.”
-- Arnold Bennett

#War #Years #People

“Time is the explicable raw material of everything.”
-- Arnold Bennett

#Time #Raw Materials #Materials

“Procrastination is suicide on the installment plan.”
-- Arnold Bennett

#Suicide #Procrastination #Plans

“Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain; it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness. If men and women practiced mental calisthenics as they do physical calisthenics, they would purge their brains of this foolishness.”
-- Arnold Bennett

#Stupid #Men #Worry

“The people who live in the past must yield to the people who live in the future. Otherwise the world would begin to turn the other way round.”
-- Arnold Bennett

#Past #Yield #People

“Make love to every woman you meet; if you get five per cent of your outlay it's a good investment.”
-- Arnold Bennett

#Love #Making Love #Investment

“Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live finely”
-- Arnold Bennett