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 BennettThe pleasure of doing a thing in the same way at the same time every day, and savoring it, should be noted.
Arnold BennettThe most important preliminary to the task of arranging one's life so that one may live fully and comfortably within one's daily budget of 24 hours is the calm realization of the extreme difficulty of the task, of the sacrifices and the endless effort which it demands.
Arnold BennettIt is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable.
Arnold Bennett