Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Topics: Happiness Quotes

Be true to your own act and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange...

Be true to your own act and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange...

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

Wherever there is power there is age.

Wherever there is power there is age.

I can find my biography in every fable that I read

I can find my biography in every fable that I read

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph...

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph...

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

Nothing can bring you happiness but yourself.

Nothing can bring you happiness but yourself.

The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and...

The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and...

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.

Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.

Life is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy.

Life is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy.

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

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

Thou art to me a delicious torment.

Thou art to me a delicious torment.

Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to...

Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to...

By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.

By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.

It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make...

It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make...

God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

The old paradox: Can God make a stone so heavy that he can't lift it?

The old paradox: Can God make a stone so heavy that he can't lift it?

Beauty is God's handwriting.

Beauty is God's handwriting.