There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there's only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there's no reason why you shouldn't have a fairly good time.
The visible world is a daily miracle, for those who have eyes and ears. - Edith Wharton
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
The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!
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
One can remain alive ... if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity interested in big things and happy in small ways.
Silence may be as variously shaded as speech. - Edith Wharton
Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.
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
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 …
Set wide the window. Let me drink the day. - Edith Wharton
Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.
If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time. - Edith Wharton
If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.
Some things are best mended by a break. - Edith Wharton
Some things are best mended by a break.
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
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…
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