Behold congenial Autumn comes, the Sabbath of the Year.
Reading is one of the true pleasures of life. In our age of mass culture, when so much that we encounter is abridged,adapted, adulterated, shredded, and boiled down, it is mind-easing and mind-inspiring to sit down privately with a congenial book.
The Insignificance of Man is a congenial theme; my own insignificance is a sore point.
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.
I think that the people that are publicly on Hillary Clinton's short list all are very congenial people. They're not people with personality or Captain Queeg problems.
Reputation being essentially contemporaneous, is always at the mercy of the Envious and the Ignorant. But Fame, whose very birth is posthumous, and which is only known to exist by the echo of its footsteps through congenial minds, can neither be increased nor diminished by any degree of wilfulness.
I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial, but the cause was the same.
Serious work gets done. . . in congenial surroundings, which tend to make you laugh.
I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable.
There is a condition or circumstance that has a greater bearing upon the happiness of life than any other. What is it? Something to do; some congenial work. Take away the occupation of all people and what a wretched world it would be.
The secret to happiness is to find a congenial monotony.
I don't ask myself, is the life congenial to me? But, am I fitted for, am I called to, the Ministry?
There must be an alternative between Hollywood and New York, between those two places psychically as well as geographically. The University of Iowa tries to offer such a community, congenial to the young writer, with his uneasiness about writing as an honorable career, or with his excess of ego about calling himself a writer.
We have the hardest working people in the world, the most adaptable and the most congenial to employ.
I always made my food congenial to my constitution, and my health was always excellent.
I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to me.
Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is, everywhere in the Western world since the sixteenth century) it will infallibly discover congenial agencies (mechanical and political) of expression.
And of course, FDR was very charming. At 6'2", he was tall enough to be her beau, and they made a beautiful couple. And she could encourage him. His mother also encouraged him. So this notion of a woman with ideas of her own and a spirit of her own and a style of her own was very congenial to Franklin. And he loved her. And their romance was a very dear and true and deep romance.
Not indolence but congenial work is man's Divinely allotted portion.
Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.
