Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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I believe I know the only cure, which is to make one’s center of life inside of one’s self, not selfishly or excludingly, but with a kind of unassailable serenity—to decorate one’s inner house so richly that one is content there, glad to welcome anyone who wants to come and stay, but happy all the same when one is inevitably alone.

Edith Wharton's Popular Quotes

The visible world is a daily miracle, for those who have eyes and ears.

- Edith Wharton

The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!

- Edith Wharton

One can remain alive ... if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity interested in big things and happy in small ways.

- Edith Wharton

Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.

- Edith Wharton

Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.

- Edith Wharton

But I have sometimes thought that a woman's nature is like a great house full of rooms: there is the hall, through which everyone passes in going in …

- Edith Wharton

I believe I know the only cure, which is to make one’s center of life inside of one’s self, not selfishly or excludingly, but with a kind of unassail…

- Edith Wharton

If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.

- Edith Wharton

Some things are best mended by a break.

- Edith Wharton