Quote by Edith Wharton
People pay for what they do, and still more, for what they have al

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

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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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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Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny. – Tryon Edwards

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If a householder moulds himself according to the circumstances just like nature moulds Herself according to seasons and performs his Karma then only shall he acquire happiness. – Rig Veda

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The cool thing about free will is that even if one has a huge bag of karma there is still a lot of free will for all those souls coming into the world. – Kuan Yin

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There are the waves and there is the wind, seen and unseen forces. Everyone has these same elements in their lives, the seen and unseen, karma and free will. – Kuan Yin

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In order to be realist you must believe in miracles. – David Ben-Gurion

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Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin. – Vladimir Lenin

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Men act out like theyre horrified by marriage, but when they find the woman of their dreams, they love it. – Rachel Hunter

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There are so many things that poetry is about, one of which is memory. – Peter Davison

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