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. BENSONWhen you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
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Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
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Do you know the times when one seems to stick fast in circumstances like the fly in the jam-pot? It can’t be helped, and I suppose the best thing to do is to lay in a good store of jam!
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As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
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Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.
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The joy of all mysteries is the certainty which comes from their contemplation, that there are many doors yet for the soul to open on her upward and inward way.
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It seems sometimes as if one were powerless to do any more from within to overcome troubles, and that help must come from without.
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Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.
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I don’t like authority, at least I don’t like other people’s authority.
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I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.
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I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.
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A well begun is half ended.
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People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.
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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.
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The moment that any life, however good, stifles you, you may be sure it isn’t your real life.
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