Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes about Joy

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

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

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

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

Pride ruined the angels, Their shame them restores; And the joy that is sweetest Lurks in stings of remorse.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Angel, Pride, Joy

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2016). “Selected Writings”, p.298, Simon and Schuster

The secret of fortune is joy in our hands.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hands, Joy, Secret

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.257, Рипол Классик

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

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

The masters painted for joy, and knew not that virtue had gone out of them. They could not paint the like in cold blood. The masters of English lyric wrote their songs so. It was a fine efflorescence of fine powers.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Song, Blood, Joy

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.92, Harvard University Press

For the time of towns is tolled from the world by funereal chimes, but in nature the universal hours are counted by succeeding tribes of animals and plants, and by growth of joy on joy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Time, Animal, Joy

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.86, Coyote Canyon Press

Always the seer is a sayer. Somehow his dream is told; somehow he publishes it with solemn joy: sometimes with pencil on canvas, sometimes with chisel on stone, sometimes in towers and aisles of granite, his soul's worship is builded; sometimes in anthems of indefinite music, but clearest and most permanent, in words.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Dream, Joy, Soul

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.116, Coyote Canyon Press

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”

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

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

My joy in friends, those sacred people, is my consolation.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friends, People, Joy

Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1888). “The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, L834-l872”

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

It is a greater joy to see the author's author, than himself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reading, Joy, Greater

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays, second series”, p.137, Harvard University Press

With thought, with the ideal, is immortal hilarity, the rose of joy. Round it all the muses sing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Rose, Joy, Hilarity

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.328, Library of America

The only joy in his being mine, is that the not mine is mine.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friendship, Friends, Joy

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.96

We are not very much to blame for our bad marriages. We live amid hallucinations, and especial trap is laid to trip up our feet with, and all are tripped up first or last. But the mighty mother, who had been so sly with us, as if she felt she owed us some indemnity, insinuates into the Pandora box of marriage some deep and serious benefits, and some great joys.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mother, Feet, Joy

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.169, Harvard University Press

In the actual world--the painful kingdom of time and place--dwell care, and canker, and fear. With thought, with the ideal, is immortal hilarity, the rose of joy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Rose, Joy, Hilarity

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.328, Library of America

I give you joy of your free and brave thought. I have great joy in it. I find incomparable things said incomparably well, as they must be. I find the courage of treatment which so delights us, and which large perception only can inspire.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Giving, Brave, Joy

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1979). “Emerson's Literary Criticism”, p.229, U of Nebraska Press

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, Giving, Joy

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