Quotes from Arthur Christopher Benson

Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.

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.

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.

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

It seems sometimes as if one were powerless to do any more from within to overcome troubles, and that help must come from without.

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.

Congenial labor is essence of happiness.