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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

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Life is the only real counselor wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue. – Edith Wharton

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Experience
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Edith Wharton
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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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There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will. – Epictetus

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Mans only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever. – John Ruskin

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Some pursue happiness, others create it. – Author Unknown

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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive. – Matthew Arnold

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He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass. – George Herbert

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