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Life Quotes by Edith Wharton
- Make ones center of life inside ones self, not selfishly or excludingly, but with a kind of unassailable serenity.
- Life has a way of overgrowing its achievements as well as its ruins.
- Life is either always a tight-rope or a featherbed. Give me a tight-rope.
- For what endless years this life will have to go on! He felt, with a kind of horror, his own strong youth and the bounding…
- If I could have made the change sooner I daresay I should never have given a thought to the literary delights of Paris or London;…
- The other producer of old age is habit: the deathly process of doing the same thing in the same way at the same hour day…
- To be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret for, isn't it?
- Life is the saddest thing there is, next to death.
- Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.
- I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.
- Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.
- There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
- If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.
- She was very near hating him now; yet the sound of his voice, the way the light fell on his thin, dark hair, the way…
- There was once a little girl who was so very intelligent that her parents feared that she would die. But an aged aunt, who had…
- There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an…
- We can't behave like people in novels, though, can we?
- I was just a screw or cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was…
- They belonged to that vast group of human automata who go through life without neglecting to perform a single one of the gestures executed by…
- The immense accretion of flesh which had descended on her in middle life like a flood of lava on a doomed city had changed her…
- She had been bored all afternoon by Percy Gryce... but she could not ignore him on the morrow, she must follow up her success, must…
- Something he knew he had missed: the flower of life. But he thought of it now as a thing so unattainable and improbable that to…
- Poetry and art are the breath of life to her.
- 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…
- She felt a stealing sense of fatigue as she walked; the sparkle had died out of her, and the taste of life was stale on…
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- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle