I came across a list of quotations from G. K. Chesterton today, and these five stood out to me as a source of meditation and encouragement. I thought they might for you as well. Sometimes it is better to publicize the good words already spoken by another than to fill the world with more of one's own thoughts.
“The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice.” – A Defense of Humilities, The Defendant, 1901
“A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.” – The Everlasting Man, 1925
“An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered.” – On Running After Ones Hat, All Things Considered, 1908 {Keep in mind that he wrote this one before the invention of computers!}
“He is a [sane] man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head.” – Tremendous Trifles, 1909 {This is the most thought-provoking of them for me.}
“The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who generally lives and dies in a desperate and suicidal effort to persuade other people how good they are.” – Introduction to The Defendant {I never thought of optimism in this manner before. A challenge to live this way!}
SDG
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