Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Life Quotes, Happiness Quotes

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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If you count the sunny and the cloudy days of the whole year, you will find that the sunshine predominates.

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This is the true joy of life-the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown to the scrap-heap; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish clod of ailments and grievances.

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An optimist sees the oportunity in every difficulty.

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What woeful stuff this madrigal would be, In some starved hackney sonneteer, or me! But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens! how the style refines!

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Women want to serve, and this is where their happiness lies: but the free spirit does not want to be served, and this is where hishappiness lies.

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To be truly happy and contented, you must let go of what it means to be happy or content.

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True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.

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There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.

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Forgiveness is the most effective way of dealing with arguments; altruism and forgiveness bring humanity together so that no conflict, however serious, will go beyond the bounds of what is truly human.

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The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

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Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the way of the best happiness.

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A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy.

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What I know for sure is that you feel real joy in direct proportion to how connected you are to living your truth.

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Happiness ain't a thing in itself -it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

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At the door of every happy person there should be a man with a hammer whose knock would serve as a constant reminder of the existence of unfortunate people.

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Nothing is more graceful than habitual cheerfulness.

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I never believe much in happiness. I never believe in misery either. Those are things you see on the stage or the screen or the printed page, they never really happen to you in life.

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Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.

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It is the activity of the intellect that constitutes complete human happiness - provided it be granted a complete span of life, for nothing that belongs to happiness can be incomplete.

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