“In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.”
Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence
“If only we’d stop trying to be happy we’d have a pretty good time.”
Edith Wharton. This is a repeat but it’s awesome so I hope you don’t mind
“The real marriage of true minds is for any two people to possess a sense of humor or irony pitched in exactly the same key, so that their joint glances on any subject cross like interarching searchlights.”
Edith Wharton, from her autobiography
“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”
Edith Wharton
“And you’ll sit beside me, and we’ll look, not at visions, but at realities.”
Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence
