4 Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes on Happiness

Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes on happiness

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

104. Discontent is the want of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will.

106. Travelling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places. At home I dream that at Naples, at Rome, I can be intoxicated with beauty, and lose my sadness. I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from. I seek the Vatican, and the palaces. I affect to be intoxicated with sights and suggestions, but I am not intoxicated. My giant goes with me wherever I go.

120. Happy is the house that shelters a friend!