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Happiness Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

47 Happiness quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Ralph Waldo Emerson says happiness is like a perfume that drips onto you when you share it. He reminds us that joy comes from how we think about our own situation, not from anything else. He also notes that good manners and simple choices can make everyday actions feel happier.

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Man's life is a progress, not a station.

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Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy

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The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere.

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Hospitality consists in a little fire, a little food, and an immense quiet

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I'm happier. I guess I made up my mind to be that way.

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The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship

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Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

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Health, south wind, books, old trees, a boat, a friend.

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A cheerful intelligent face is the end of culture, and success enough. For it indicates the purpose of Nature and wisdom attained.

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Happy the man who never puts on a face, but receives every visitor with that countenance he has on.

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Allow yourself to trust joy and embrace it. You will find you dance with everything.

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The high prize of life, the crowning fortune of man, is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds…

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When a happy person comes into the room, it is as if another candle has been lit.

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Our first mistake is the belief that the circumstance gives the joy which we give to the circumstance.

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There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of…

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The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in…

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The purpose of life is not to simply be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to…

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The world when seen through a little child's eyes, greatly resembles paradise. Happiness is doing with a smile what you have to…

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Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string…

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Don't be a cynic, and bewail and bemoan. Omit the negative propositions. Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad,…

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The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be…

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Christianity taught the capacity, the element, to love the All-perfect without a stingy bargain for personal happiness. It taught that to love…

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All life is an experiment. Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which animates all whom it…

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Say thank you! I want to hear you say it now. Out loud. 'Thank you.' You're saying thank you because your faith…

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I know nothing which life has to offer so satisfying as the profound good understanding, which can subsist, after much exchange ofgood…

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“Let us affront and reprimand the smooth mediocrity and squalid contentment of the times, and hurl in the face of custom and…

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The whole course of things goes to teach us faith. We need only obey. There is guidance for each of us, and…

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“In happy hours, nature appears to us one with art; art perfected, -- the work of genius. And the individual, in whom…

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Happy is the house that shelters a friend! It might well be built, like a festal bower or arch, to entertain him…

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THE POET A moody child and wildly wise Pursued the game with joyful eyes, Which chose, like meteors, their way, And rived…

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The lover is made happier by his love than the object of his affection.

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“It is a happy talent to know how to play.”

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Happiness is just an illusion caused by the temporary absence of reality.

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He thought it happier to be dead, To die for Beauty, than live for bread

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To fill the hour; that is happiness to fill the hour, and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval.

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I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply.

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Of cheerfulness, or a good temper - the more it is spent, the more of it remains.

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Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself

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Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.

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For a great nature, it is a happiness to escape a religious training; religion of character is so apt to be invaded.

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A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine.

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No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews.

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I am; therefore, I had nothing better to do than to think.

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