Enoch Arnold Bennett Quotes (9 Quotes)

We never shall have any more time we have, and we have always had, all the time there is.

No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.

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.

Ye can call it influenza if ye like, said Mrs. Machin. There was no influenza in my young days. We called a cold a cold.

The war years count double. Things and people not actively in use age twice as fast.

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

I think it rather fine, this necessity for the tense bracing of the will before anything worth doing can be done. I rather like it myself. I feel it is to be the chief thing that differentiates me from the cat by the fire.

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.

The manner in which one single ray of light, one single precious hint, will clarify and energize the whole mental life of him who receives it, is among the most wonderful and heavenly of intellectual phenomena.