What did Edith Wharton mean by: Life has a way of overgrowing its achievements as well as its ruins. Edith Wharton Novelist · United Copy
+ Life’s just a perpetual piecing together of broken bits. Author, June 1, 2023December 25, 2024, Edith Wharton, Growth, Imperfection, Resilience, 0 Edith Wharton Novelist · United
+ [B]ut he had lived in a world in which, as he said, no one who loved ideas need hunger mentally. Author, December 14, 2023December 28, 2024, Edith Wharton, Intellectualism, Nourishment, Society, 0 Edith Wharton Novelist · United
+ [I]t’s safer to be fond of dangerous people. Author, September 29, 2023January 2, 2025, Edith Wharton, Relationships, Risk, Safety, 0 Edith Wharton Novelist · United
+ Our blindest impulses become evidence of perspicacity when they fall in with the course of events. Author, December 14, 2023December 28, 2024, Edith Wharton, Evidence, Impulses, 0 Edith Wharton Novelist · United
+ In all the arts abundance seems to be one of the surest signs of vocation. Author, December 14, 2023December 28, 2024, Edith Wharton, Abundance, Arts, Vocation, 0 Edith Wharton Novelist · United
+ Some things are best mended by a break. Author, August 16, 2023January 2, 2025, Edith Wharton, Growth, Healing, Transformation, 0 Edith Wharton Novelist · United
+ People struggled on for years with ‘troubles,’ but they almost always succumbed to ‘complications. Author, December 14, 2023December 29, 2024, Edith Wharton, Complications, Struggle, 0 Edith Wharton Novelist · United
+ The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing. Author, August 1, 2023January 2, 2025, Edith Wharton, Creativity, Ideas, Inspiration, 0 Edith Wharton Novelist · United
The course of a river is almost always disapproved of by the source. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
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A human life gains lustre and strength only when it is polished and tempered. Mas Oyama Martial artist · South Korea
If I’ve grown as an artist, it will be represented in the art. There’s no need to explain it. Matisyahu Singer-songwriter
