More quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs."
"Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."
"For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness."
"When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your're the one who is smiling and everyone else is crying."
"The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next."