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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes about Happiness

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.3101, Delphi Classics

Earth laughs in flowers.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2016). “Selected Writings”, p.306, Simon and Schuster

To fill the hour──that is happiness.

'Essays. Second Series' (1844) 'Experience'

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.380

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.656, Modern Library

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 (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.422

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2581, Delphi Classics

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1966). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1824-1838”, p.197, Harvard University Press

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.26, Courier Corporation

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.1068, Library of America

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.140, Harvard University Press

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.134, Рипол Классик

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.166, Harvard University Press

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.366, Harvard University Press