Quotes & Sayings About Happiness Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our first mistake is the belief that the circumstance gives the joy which we give to the circumstance. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I know nothing which life has to offer so satisfying as the profound good understanding, which can subsist, after much exchange ofgood offices, between two virtuous men, each of whom is sure of himself, and sure of his friend. It is a happiness which postpones all other gratifications, and makes politics, and commerce, and churches, cheap. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The lover seeks in marriage his private felicity and perfection, with no prospective end; and nature hides in his happiness her own ends, namely, progeny, or the perpetuity of the race. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Genial manners are good, and power of accommodation to any circumstance, but the high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a man is to be born with a bias to some pursuit, which finds him in employment and happiness,
whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statutes, or songs. I doubt not this was the meaning of Socrates, when he pronounced artists the only truly wise, as being actually, not apparently so. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hospitality consists in a little fire, a little food, and an immense quiet — Ralph Waldo Emerson

To fill the hour--that is happiness. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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! — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

To fill the hour - that is happiness, to fill the hour and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Christianity taught the capacity, the element, to love the All-perfect without a stingy bargain for personal happiness. It taught that to love Him was happiness;
to love Him in others' virtues. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Man's life is a progress, not a station. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Health, south wind, books, old trees, a boat, a friend. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing can bring you happiness but yourself especially how you choose to think about your situation. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm happier. I guess I made up my mind to be that way. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson is believed to have said, "Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself. — Will Bowen