Inspirational Quotes by Edith Wharton — Words of Wisdom for Daily Success

“It had evidently not occurred to her as yet that those who consent to share the bread of adversity may want the whole cake of prosperity for themselves.”

“Her failure was a useful preliminary to success.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“Folly is as often justified of her children as wisdom.”

“To know when to be generous and when firm—that is wisdom.”

“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 interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul.”

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