Quote by Edith Wharton
If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good t

If only we’d stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time. – Edith Wharton

Other quotes by Edith Wharton

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before. – Edith Wharton

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Art
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Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death. – Edith Wharton

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Age
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Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you dont set any condition. – Arthur Rubinstein

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Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing. – George A. Sheehan

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True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice. – Ben Jonson

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Happiness

One thing Ive been happy as peach pie about – because Im all about the children and the happiness of a woman because that makes the happiness of the home – is that nannies, day cares and babysitters are all collapsing, which is forcing moms and dads to raise their children at home. – Laura Schlessinger

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Happiness

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Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in? – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Representative Men, 1850

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