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.
—A. C. Benson
Topics: Friendship
One’s mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.
—A. C. Benson
Topics: Decisions
Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.
—A. C. Benson
Topics: Change, Moving on, Self-Discovery
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.
—A. C. Benson
Topics: Courage
The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
—A. C. Benson
Topics: Fear, Sorrow, Courage
I expect that all of us get pretty much what we deserve of appreciation.
—A. C. Benson
Topics: Appreciation
People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
—A. C. Benson
Topics: Help
I am sure it is one’s duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one’s own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.
—A. C. Benson
Topics: Teaching
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.
—A. C. Benson
Topics: Giving, Service, Endurance, Perseverance, Resolve, Kindness
It seems sometimes as if one were powerless to do any more from within to overcome troubles, and that help must come from without.
—A. C. Benson
Topics: Service, Giving, Kindness
As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
—A. C. Benson
Topics: Mystery
Congenial labor is the essence of happiness.
—A. C. Benson
Topics: Happiness
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.
—A. C. Benson
Topics: Books, Reading
Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
—A. C. Benson
Topics: Attitude, Change
The moment that any life, however good, stifles you, you may be sure it isn’t your real life.
—A. C. Benson
Topics: Being Ourselves
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- G. K. Chesterton English Journalist
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- Charles Kingsley English Clergyman
- E. M. Forster English Novelist
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