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Happy Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply.
- Practice makes perfect - the sooner you start, the sooner you will be a happy nonsmoker
- As I walked in the woods I felt what I often feel that nothing can befall me in life, no calamity, no disgrace (leaving me…
- Happy is the house that shelters a friend.
- The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.
- But man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past, or, heedless of the riches that…
- Hidden away in the inner nature of the real man is the law of his life, and someday he will discover it and consciously make…
- Manners are the happy ways of doing things.
- There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things.
- He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time.
- When a happy person comes into the room, it is as if another candle has been lit.
- Happy the man who never puts on a face, but receives every visitor with that countenance he has on.
- Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage.
- Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
- Happy will the house be in which the relationships are formed from character.
- The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some…
- Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each one a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage, they form…
- To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy is to set your own conditions to the events of each day. To do…
- For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
More Happy Quotes
- I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. — Aaliyah
- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of… — Pietro Aretino
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
- It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make… — Richard Bach
- I can't relax. I'm not happy unless I'm working on stuff. 'SNL' is always a huge workload, as enjoyable as it is. — Fred Armisen
- No one's really happy anyway, it's not human. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a… — David Attenborough
- Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. — Saint Augustine