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Happiness Quote by Elizabeth Edwards

"You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces - my family, my friends, and a faith in the power of resilience and hope. These graces have carried me through difficult times and they have brought more joy to the good times than I ever could have imagined"

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Edwards frames survival as a collective project, not a solo act of grit. The phrase "saving graces" borrows religious cadence without preaching doctrine, letting her talk about endurance in a language that feels both intimate and publicly shareable. She offers a neat trinity - family, friends, and "a faith in the power of resilience and hope" - that reads like a life raft inventory: the people who held her up, and the inner story that kept her from sinking.

The intent is steadiness. She is not asking for pity; she is asserting a method. By saying "You all know", she leans on communal memory, positioning her audience as witnesses to a long record of trials and recoveries. That quiet rhetorical move does two things at once: it dignifies her private pain as something met with public composure, and it nudges listeners to accept the narrative she is choosing to leave behind.

The subtext is harder-edged than it appears. Resilience here is not a motivational poster; it is a practiced belief, almost a discipline, suggesting that hope is something you decide to keep using even when circumstances give you reasons to quit. "More joy to the good times" is the final twist: suffering, she implies, didn't just scar her, it sharpened her capacity for gratitude. In the context of Edwards' very public life - political visibility, marital betrayal, and serious illness - the line reads as a controlled rebuttal to spectacle. She narrows a chaotic biography into a moral: the real drama was always in the sustaining, not the scandal.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Edwards, Elizabeth. (2026, January 15). You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces - my family, my friends, and a faith in the power of resilience and hope. These graces have carried me through difficult times and they have brought more joy to the good times than I ever could have imagined. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/you-all-know-that-i-have-been-sustained-145433/

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Edwards, Elizabeth. "You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces - my family, my friends, and a faith in the power of resilience and hope. These graces have carried me through difficult times and they have brought more joy to the good times than I ever could have imagined." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/you-all-know-that-i-have-been-sustained-145433/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces - my family, my friends, and a faith in the power of resilience and hope. These graces have carried me through difficult times and they have brought more joy to the good times than I ever could have imagined." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/you-all-know-that-i-have-been-sustained-145433/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

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Elizabeth Edwards (July 3, 1949 - December 7, 2010) was a Lawyer from USA.

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