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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

Other quotes by Edith Wharton

There are two ways to spread happiness; either be the light who shines it or be the mirror who reflects it. – Edith Wharton

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Mirrors
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Edith Wharton
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People pay for what they do, and still more, for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it simply: by the lives they lead. – Edith Wharton

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Karma
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A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings. – James Allen

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Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, youll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap. – William Bennett

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Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison. – Georges Bataille

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Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates. – Jean de la Bruyere

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Happiness

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Though men now possess the power to dominate and exploit every corner of the natural world, nothing in that fact implies that they have the right or the need to do so. – Edward Abbey

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