Arnold Bennet quotes

" It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top. " # Effort

" Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. " # Change

" Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission. " # Censorship # self-esteem # Mind

" It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top. " # Adversity

" The price of justice is eternal publicity. " # Publicity # Justice # Love

" Always behave as if nothing had happened, no matter what has happened. " # Women

" Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others. " # Praise

" If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living. " # Egotism # Life and Living # Love

" It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable. " # Pleasure # Pain # Experience

" 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. " # Happiness # Freedom # Power