Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Joy

• All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Motivational, Positive

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

• The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Family, Trust

• There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Pain, Kindness, Joy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.418, Рипол Классик

• There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us. 'Tis good to give a stranger a meal, or a night's lodging. 'Tis better to be hospitable to his good meaning and thought, and give courage to a companion. We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Pain, Attitude, Night

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.104, Harvard University Press

• Allow yourself to trust joy and embrace it. You will find you dance with everything.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Happiness, Dancing, Joy

• You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Power, Joy, Said

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.292, Harvard University Press

• But there is no end to the praise of books, to the value of the library. Who shall estimate their influence on our population where all the millions read and write ? It is the joy of nations that man can communicate all his thoughts, discoveries and virtues to records that may last for centuries.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Writing, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1921). “Representative men. Miscellanies”

• We do not live an equal life, but one of contrasts and patchwork; now a little joy, then a sorrow, now a sin, then a generous or brave action.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Change, Joy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “The Journals”

• Earth laughs in flowers.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Positive, Happiness, Nature

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

• Must we always talk for victory, and never once for truth, for comfort, and joy?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Comfort And Joy, Joy, Victory

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.53, Harvard University Press

• Go forth into the busy world and love it. Interest yourself in its life, mingle kindly with its joys and sorrows.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  World And Love, Joy, Sorrow

• The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Men, Yield

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.183, Graphic Arts Books

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Happiness, Joy, Approval

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

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Happiness, Mistake, Giving

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

• Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Joy, Soul, Promise

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.77

• Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a benefactor.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Truth, Power, Joy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2631, Delphi Classics

• An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered mood, by beams of kindness, it can make the heart dance for joy. ... One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Kindness, Eye, Heart

• I hear therefore with joy whatever is beginning to be said of the dignity and necessity of labor to every citizen. There is virtue yet in the hoe and the spade, for learned as well as for unlearned hands. And labor is everywhere welcome; always we are invited to work; only be this limitation observed, that a man shall not for the sake of wider activity sacrifice any opinion to the popular judgments and modes of action.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Work, Learning, Sacrifice

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.69, Penguin

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Happiness, Success, Laughter

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

• There is in nature a parallel unity which corresponds to the unity in the mind and makes it available. This methodizing mind meets no resistance in its attempts. The scattered blocks, with which it strives to form a symmetrical structure, fit. This design following after finds with joy that like design went before. Not only man puts things in a row, but things belong in a row.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Block, Men, Design

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.21, University of Georgia Press

• The secret of fortune is joy in our hands. Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man. For him all doors are flung wide. Him all tongues greet, all honors crown, all eyes follow with desire. Our love goes out to him and embraces him because he did not need it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, Men, Doors

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1982). “Emerson: Selected Essays”, p.183, Penguin

• What a benefit would the American government, not yet relieved of its extreme need, render to itself, and to every city, village and hamlet in the States, if it would tax whiskey and rum almost to the point of prohibition! Was it Bonaparte who said that he found vices very good patriots? "He got five millions from the love of brandy, and he should be glad to know which of the virtues would pay him as much." Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy as they give and such harm as they do.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Army, Cities, Government

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.438, Harvard University Press

• Come out of the azure. Love the day. Do not leave the sky out of your landscape.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Sky, Joy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.418

• You will think me very pedantic, gentlemen, but holiday though it may be, I have not the smallest interest in any holiday, except as it celebrates real and not pretended joys.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Real, Holiday, Thinking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: English traits”, p.176, Harvard University Press

• The delicate muses lose their head if their attention is once diverted. Perhaps if you were successful abroad in talking and dealing with men, you would not come back to your bookshelf and your task. When the spirit chooses you for its scribe to publish some commandment, it makes you odious to men and men odious to you, and you shall accept that loathsomeness with joy. The moth must fly to the lamp, and you must solve those questions though you die.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Successful, Men, Talking

  "Letters and social aims". Inspiration. Book by Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1875.

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