Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Happiness
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Man's life is a progress, not a station.
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The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere.
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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 to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.
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Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.
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The secret of culture is to learn, that a few great points steadily reappear, alike in the poverty of the obscurest farm, and in the miscellany of metropolitan life, and that these few are alone to be regarded,--the escape from all false ties; courage to be what we are; and love what is simple and beautiful; independence and cheerful relation, these are the essentials,--these, and the wish to serve,--to add somewhat to the well-being of men.
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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 of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue. . . .
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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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Say thank you! I want to hear you say it now. Out loud. 'Thank you.' You're saying thank you because your faith is so strong that you don't doubt that whatever the problem, you'll get through it. You're saying thank you because you know that even in the eye of the storm, God has put a rainbow in the clouds. You're saying thank you because you know there's no problem created that can compare to the Creator of all things. Say thank you!
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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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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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Health, south wind, books, old trees, a boat, a friend.
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The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
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The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship
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Allow yourself to trust joy and embrace it. You will find you dance with everything.
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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 doing things.
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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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Of cheerfulness, or a good temper - the more it is spent, the more of it remains.
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Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?
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As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
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Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
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To fill the hour──that is happiness.
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A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
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I'm happier. I guess I made up my mind to be that way.
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All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
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Hume's doctrine was that the circumstances vary, the amount of happiness does not; that the beggar cracking fleas in the sunshine under a hedge, and the duke rolling by in his chariot, the girl equipped for her first ball, and the orator returning triumphant from the debate, had different means, but the same quantity of pleasant excitement.
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Earth laughs in flowers.
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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
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Hospitality consists in a little fire, a little food, and an immense quiet
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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, but chant the beauty of the good. Set down nothing that will help somebody.
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