Ralph Waldo Emerson Happiness Quotes

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness

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For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Insist on yourself. Never imitate.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every artist was first an amateur.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't waste your life in doubts and fears: Spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours or ages that follow it.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every man finds a sanction for his simplest claims and deeds, in decisions of his own mind, which he calls Truth and Holiness.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard as iron.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Each age, it is found, must write its own books or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.

- Margaret Lee Runbeck

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

- Agnes Repplier

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

- John Lennon

Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.

- Abraham Lincoln

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own

- Robert A. Heinlein

Happiness is a function of accepting what is.

- Werner Erhard

The world always seems brighter when you’ve just made something that wasn’t there before.

- Neil Gaiman

Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow

- Swedish Proverb

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.

- Martha Washington

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.

- Epictetus