Quote by Arnold Bennett
Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full hon

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

Other quotes by Arnold Bennett

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

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Censorship
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Journalists say a thing that they know isnt true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true. – Arnold Bennett

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The word happiness would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. – Carl Jung

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Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature. – Dennis Prager

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Happiness

Im fulfilled in what I do. I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes – the finer things of life – would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense. – Coretta Scott King

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The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things. – Ernest Dimnet

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Tranquility is the old mans milk. – Thomas Jefferson

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The right to happiness is fundamental. – Anna Pavlova

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