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 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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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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There is too much sour grapes for my taste in the present American attitude. The time to denounce the bankers was when we were all feeding off their gold plate; not now! At present they have not only my sympathy but my preference. They are the last representatives of our native industries. – Edith Wharton

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Banks / Banking
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Other Quotes from
Happiness
category

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

According to your sympathy, you will take pleasure in your own happiness or in the happiness of other people but it is always your own happiness you seek. – John Buchanan Robinson

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Happiness

The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of common man. – William Beveridge

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Happiness

The white mans happiness cannot be purchased by the black mans misery. – Frederick Douglass

Category:
Happiness

Random Quotes

Now and then there comes a crash of thunder in a storm, and we look up with amazement when he sets the heavens on a blaze with his lightning. – C.H. Spurgeon

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Weather

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn’t stop to enjoy it. – William Feather

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Happiness

Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain. – Diane Arbus

Category:
Change

I think as an American society, when were paying too many taxes or dealing with war, we dont want to see sad things at the movies. – Zoe Saldana

Category:
movies