When it comes to life the critical thing... | Gilbert K. Chesterton

Life

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

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I love sharing my story. It's endlessly healing.

- Ben Vereen

Other quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

Success

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

Marriage

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

Popular Life World

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

People Love

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

Health Man

Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

Wrong Mother Right

'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

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