The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The lover is made happier by his love than the object of his affection. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Of cheerfulness, or a good temper - the more it is spent, the more of it remains. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When a happy person comes into the room, it is as if another candle has been lit. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Allow yourself to trust joy and embrace it. You will find you dance with everything. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Happiness is a perfume... you canot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself... — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The purpose of life is not to simply be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Christianity taught the capacity, the element, to love the All-perfect without a stingy bargain for personal happiness. It taught that to love… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Don't be a cynic, and bewail and bemoan. Omit the negative propositions. Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The world when seen through a little child's eyes, greatly resembles paradise. Happiness is doing with a smile what you have to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I know nothing which life has to offer so satisfying as the profound good understanding, which can subsist, after much exchange ofgood… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Hume's doctrine was that the circumstances vary, the amount of happiness does not; that the beggar cracking fleas in the sunshine under… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Happy is the house that shelters a friend! It might well be built, like a festal bower or arch, to entertain him… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“In happy hours, nature appears to us one with art; art perfected, -- the work of genius. And the individual, in whom… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The whole course of things goes to teach us faith. We need only obey. There is guidance for each of us, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Let us affront and reprimand the smooth mediocrity and squalid contentment of the times, and hurl in the face of custom and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Genial manners are good, and power of accommodation to any circumstance, but the high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
All life is an experiment. Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which animates all whom it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He thought it happier to be dead, To die for Beauty, than live for bread — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Happiness is just an illusion caused by the temporary absence of reality. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Hospitality consists in a little fire, a little food, and an immense quiet — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Happy the man who never puts on a face, but receives every visitor with that countenance he has on. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nothing can bring you happiness but yourself especially how you choose to think about your situation. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Our first mistake is the belief that the circumstance gives the joy which we give to the circumstance. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To fill the hour; that is happiness to fill the hour, and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
