WIST

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

Edith Wharton (1862-1937) American novelist
(Attributed)

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

Edith Wharton (1862-1937) American novelist
(Attributed)

In spite of illness, in spite even of the arch-enemy 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 (1862-1937) American novelist
(Attributed)