Quote of the Day (Edith Wharton, on Being Alive)

“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.”— American novelist and short-story writer Edith Wharton (1862-1937), A Backward Glance: An Autobiography (1934)