"The crowning fortune of a man is..." - Quote 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.
More by Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Invention breeds invention. No sooner is the electric telegraph devised than gutta-percha, the very material it requires, is found. The aeronaut is provided with gun-cotton, the very fuel he wants for his balloon.”
“A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.”
“A poem, a sentence, causes us to see ourselves. I be, and I see my being, at the same time.”
More on Purpose
“Whatever my passions demand of me, I become for the time being - musician, poet, director, author, lecturer or anything else.”
“The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.”
“People are chasing cash, not happiness. When you chase money, you're going to lose. You're just going to. Even if you get the money, you're not going to be happy.”
More on Happiness
“I like to write about relationships. I like it when my friends come over and we crowd around the piano and sing Journey songs at the top of our lungs... And I like things that make me feel seven again. I don't ever look down on people for the way they choose to have fun; it's just not necessarily the way I like to have fun.”
“Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you; until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire; until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.”
“The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it.”