The most congenial social occasions are those ruled by cheerful deference of each for all.
Not indolence but congenial work is man's Divinely allotted portion.
Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.
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.
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.
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.
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.
We have the hardest working people in the world, the most adaptable and the most congenial to employ.
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.
Congenial labor is essence of happiness.
I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to me.
I don't ask myself, is the life congenial to me? But, am I fitted for, am I called to, the Ministry?
The secret to happiness is to find a congenial monotony.
In the end, for congenial sympathy, for poetry, for work, for original feeling and expression, for perfect companionship with one's friends--give me the country.
Serious work gets done. . . in congenial surroundings, which tend to make you laugh.
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.
The Insignificance of Man is a congenial theme; my own insignificance is a sore point.
Behold congenial Autumn comes, the Sabbath of the Year.
I always made my food congenial to my constitution, and my health was always excellent.
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.
