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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There are moments when a mans imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny. – Edith Wharton

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Imagination
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There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one’s self, the very meaning of one’s soul. – Edith Wharton

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Friendship
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Happiness
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Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little. – Marguerite Gardiner

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Happiness

We cannot be happy if we expect to live all the time at the highest peak of intensity. Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony. – Thomas Merton, 1955

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Happiness

But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth that is the happiness of being truly loved. – Lafcadio Hearn

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Happiness

Happiness is the real sense of fulfillment that comes from hard work. – Joseph Barbara

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Happiness

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Attach yourself to those who advise you rather than praise you. – Nicholas Boileau

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Praise

Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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History

Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved. – Jose Ortega y Gasset

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Poetry

When you really deep down look at it, we go to bed every night, get up every morning, stay here for 70 or 80 years, and then we die. – Lee Trevino

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Morning