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Edith Wharton Quotes

Edith Wharton quotes about happy

American Author, Writer January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937

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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
Edith Wharton quote: "If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good..."
If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time. Edith Wharton
In spite of illness, in spite of even the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual state of disintegration if one is unafraid of change. Insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things and happy in small ways. Edith Wharton
Habit is necessary. It is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive ... one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in the big things, and happy in small ways. Edith Wharton
The very good people did not convince me; I felt they'd never been tempted. But you knew; you understood; you felt the world outside tugging at one with all its golden hands - and you hated the things it asked of one; you hated happiness bought by disloyalty and cruelty and indifference. That was what I'd never known before - and it's better than anything I've known. Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton quote: "But we're so different, you know: she likes being good and I..."
But we're so different, you know: she likes being good and I like being happy. Edith Wharton
[Selden] had preserved a certain social detachment, a happy air of viewing the show objectively, of having points of contact outside the great gilt cage in which they were all huddled for the mob to gape at. How alluring the world outside the cage appeared to Lily, as she heard its door clang on her! In reality, as she knew, the door never clanged: it stood always open; but most of the captives were like flies in a bottle, and having once flown in, could never regain their freedom. It was... Edith Wharton
It was too late for happiness - but not too late to be helped by the thought of what I had missed. That is all I haved lived on - don't take it from me now Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton quote: "They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had..."
They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods Edith Wharton
There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there's only one of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. Edith Wharton
Yes - it was happiness she still wanted, and the glimpse she had caught of it made everything else of no account. One by one she had detached herself from the baser possibilities , and she saw that nothing now remained to her but the emptiness of renunciation. "The House of Mirth Edith Wharton

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