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Happiness Quotes by Edith Wharton
- There are two ways to spread happiness; either be the light who shines it or be the mirror who reflects it.
- If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.
- 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…
- It was too late for happiness - but not too late to be helped by the thought of what I had missed. That is all…
- 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…
- They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods
- 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…
- In our hurried world too little value is attached to the part of the connoisseur and dilettante.
- 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.…
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- Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. — Aristotle
- Friendship is essentially a partnership. — Aristotle
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