Edith Wharton Quotes

If man could write his own fate, he would have designed his journey to be without obstacles. Yet all obstacles come with valuable lessons designed just for you and only you. Suffering is imposed on us time and again so that one day we would become brave wise masters. That is, a strong being who is confidently aware of their intended direction in life, and fearlessly adding value to the world and their future.

In the midst of creating, a person is raised to another level of consciousness.

You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need.

If our lives are made up of a string of a thousand moments, at some of those moments we look a lot more spiritually evolved than at others.

I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.

I think everything that happens in life we're prepared for in ways we really don't really know.

From a Hindu perspective, you are born as what you need to deal with, and if you just try and push it away, whatever it is, it's got you.

Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own infinitude, and his infinitude is, in one sense, overcome.

I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.

I am here now, because I am supposed to be here. And I guess when it is my time to cross over there, I will be over there. I am not religious, but I am spiritual, honey. My day is coming!

If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness.

A man's heart tells him his opportunities better than seven watchmen on a tower.

I think people sleepwalk through their lives, and for me, I wanted to embrace everything. And that meant the agonizing pain and the transcendence, and you can't have one without the other.

Throughout my life my greatest benefactors have been my dreams and my travels; very few men, living or dead, have helped me in my struggle.

Have you not learned that strength comes to an ordinary soul when given an extraordinary calling?

Everything that, by the grace of the universe, I was able to become is the direct result of everything I went through.

Fate is like a secret friend that helps push you on into life.

Just be open, life is about a constant journey and I'm very spiritual, but I'm also in touch with what's going on around me and who I am, and you have to know yourself. So for me, that's what keeps me going is just being interactive.

Our life evokes our character. You find out more about yourself as you go on. That's why it's good to put yourself in situations that will evoke your higher nature rather than your lower.

I believed that the way passed through Man, and that it was from there that destiny had to emerge.

Sobriety itself is today's high, for it is ultimately in the most centered consciousness that we find our power to transcend the world.

If they left you, you didn't need them. If they walked away, they weren't part of your DESTINY.

People have a very limited idea of what being creative is - playing the guitar or the flute or writing poetry - so people go on writing rubbish in the name of poetry. You have to find out what you can do and what you cannot do. Everybody cannot do everything. You have to search and find your destiny. You have to grope in the dark, I know. It is not very clear-cut what your destiny is, but that's how life is. And it is good that one has to search for it - in the very search, something grows.

The road will never swallow you. The river of destiny will always overcome evil. May you understand your fate. Suffering will never destroy you, but will make you stronger. Success will never confuse you of scatter your spirit, but will make you fly higher into the good sunlight. Your life will always surprise you.

The whole life is a succession of dreams. My ambition is to be a conscious dreamer, that is all.