Life The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground. Gilbert K. Chesterton 15
Life When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude. Gilbert K. Chesterton 14
Music It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it... Gilbert K. Chesterton 13
be the best 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 15
Freedom The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself. Gilbert K. Chesterton 12
Happiness Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised. Gilbert K. Chesterton 22
Soul Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything,... Gilbert K. Chesterton 17