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Edith Wharton Quotes about Happiness

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Happiness is a work of art. Handle with care.

Happiness is a work of art. Handle with care.

Edith Wharton
Happiness, Art, Care
Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.3642, Delphi Classics

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

Edith Wharton
Happiness, Happy, Women
"Ethan Frome".

There are two ways to spread happiness; either be the light who shines it or be the mirror who reflects it.

Edith Wharton
Happiness, Mirrors, Light

I feel as if I could trust my happiness to carry me; as if it had grown out of me like wings.

Edith Wharton
Happiness, Wings, Feels
Edith Wharton (2016). “The Reef: American Literature”, p.113, VM eBooks

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.

Edith Wharton
Happiness, Running, Mind
Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.4977, Delphi Classics

In our hurried world too little value is attached to the part of the connoisseur and dilettante.

Edith Wharton
Happiness, World, Littles
Edith Wharton (2016). “A Backward Glance”, p.113, 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.

Edith Wharton
Happiness, Alive, Literature
Edith Wharton (2016). “A Backward Glance”, p.4, Edith Wharton

They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods

Edith Wharton
Happiness, Butterfly, Winter
Edith Wharton (2005). “Ethan Frome - Literary Touchstone”, p.85, Prestwick House Inc

What is one's personality, detached from that of the friends with whom fate happens to have linked one? I cannot think of myself apart from the influence of the two or three greatest friendships of my life, and any account of my own growth must be that of their stimulating and enlightening influence.

Edith Wharton
Happiness, Fate, Thinking
Edith Wharton (2016). “A Backward Glance”, p.128, Edith Wharton

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