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“I live in a constant endeavor to fence against the infirmities of ill health, and other evils of life, by mirth; being firmly persuaded that every time a man smiles, but much more when he laughs, it adds some thing to his fragment of life.”

Men Evil Laughing Constant Add Ill Endeavor Fence Fragments Cheerfulness Mirth Infirmity Ill Health

Author:Laurence Sterne

“Cheerfulness is also an excellent wearing quality. It has been called the bright weather of the heart.”

Heart Has Beens Quality Weather Excellent Cheerfulness

Book:Character

Source: Character

“Cheerful looks make every dish a feast, and it is that which crowns a welcome.”

Looks Welcome Crowns Dishes Cheerful Cheerfulness

Author:Philip Massinger

“When you drop your unnecessary things, you finally can swoop and fly in vast space. It is so blue, so bright, and so nice, so airy and fresh. You can stretch your wings and breathe the air. You can do anything you want. You have experienced cheerfulness and joy, and finally the bliss of freedom occurs in you.”

Want Joy Can Do Freedom Space Nice Air Blue Wings Breathe Bliss Unnecessary Cheerfulness Airy Unnecessary Things

Book:The Tantric Path of Indestructible Wakefulness (volume 3): The Profound Treasury of the Ocean of Dharma, Volume Three

Source: The Tantric Path of Indestructible Wakefulness (volume 3): The Profound Treasury of the Ocean of Dharma, Volume Three

“There are some who possess the magic touch, the infectious spirit of enthusiasm; who have the same effect as a beautiful morning that never reaches noon. Under this spell one's mind is braced, one's spirit recreated; one is ready for any adventure, even if it only be the doing of the next distasteful task light-heartedly.”

Ifs Mind Light Beautiful Spirit Next Morning Magic Effects Adventure Ready Tasks Encouragement Enthusiasm Spells Noon Cheerfulness Distasteful Beautiful Morning

Author:Kate Douglas Wiggin

“If 'heartache' sounds exaggerated then surely you have never gone to your garden one rare morning in June to find that the frost, without any perceptible motive, any hope of personal gain, has quietly killed your strawberry blossoms, tomatoes, lima and green beans, corn, squash, cucumbers. A brilliant sun is now smiling at this disaster with an insenstive cheerfulness as out of place as a funny story would be if someone you loved had just died.”

Source: How to Have a Green Thumb Without an Aching Back: A New Method of Mulch Gardening

“Cheerfulness is a debt we owe to society, in the paying of which we receive a generous discount. We can not open our hearts to give out cheer without more cheer rushing in to take its place.”

Giving Heart Debt Generous Cheer Can Not Rushing Cheerfulness Discounts Rushing In

Author:Alice Hegan Rice

“Blessed be those souls who are glad! They are a salve for sorrow and fatigue. A sun in days of darkness, a joy in sorrow, a ray of heaven shining through the uncertainness of earth.”

Soul Earth Joy Heaven Darkness Sun Sorrow Blessed Shining Glad Rays Fatigue Cheerfulness Shining Through

Book:Yesterdays in a Busy Life

Source: Yesterdays in a Busy Life

“To everything there is a bright side and a dark side; and I hold it to be unwise, unphilosophic, unkind to others, and unhealthy for one's own soul, to form the habit of looking on the dark side. Cheerfulness is to the spiritual atmosphere what sunshine is to the earthly landscape. I am resolved to cherish cheerfulness with might and main.”

Soul Might Spiritual Form Sides Dark Habit Landscape Atmosphere Sunshine Cherish Unhealthy Dark Side Cheerfulness Unkind Unwise Bright Side

Author:Lydia M. Child

“Good humor, like the jaundice, makes every one of its own complexion.”

Motivation Cheerfulness Complexion Good Humor Jaundice

Author:Elizabeth Inchbald

“One more royal trait properly belongs to the poet. I mean his cheerfulness, without which no man can be a poet,--for beauty is his aim. He loves virtue, not for its obligation, but for its grace; he delights in the world, in man, in woman, for the lovely light that sparkles from them. Beauty, the spirit of joy and hilarity, he sheds over the universe.”

Men World Mean Light Joy Spirit Universe Virtue Grace Poet Aim Delight Lovely Obligation Traits Shed Royal Cheerfulness Sparkle Hilarity

Book:Representative Men: Seven Lectures

Source: Representative Men: Seven Lectures

“Economy is the parent of integrity, of liberty, and of ease, and the beauteous sister of temperance, of cheerfulness and health.”

Parent Liberty Economy Integrity Ease Cheerfulness Temperance

Book:The Adventurer

Source: The Adventurer

“The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendor cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate.”

Giving Ends Hours Prudence Cheerfulness Splendor

Book:The Rambler

Source: The Rambler

“The mind of a wise man is the safest custody of secrets; cheerfulness is the key to friendship; patience and forbearance will conceal many defects.”

Men Mind Character Secret Wise Keys Defects Secrecy Cheerfulness Forbearance Custody

Author:Bill Vaughan

“There are people in many other states who are cheering us.”

People States Cheer Cheerfulness

Author:Bill Vaughan

“That game gave us a lot of confidence and the fans something to cheer for.”

Games Fans Cheer Cheerfulness

Author:Bill Vaughan

“It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.”

Looks God Inspiration Faces Faith Christian Inspirational Chill Fitting Commitment To God Cheerfulness Gloomy Intimacy With God Servant Of God Friars Franciscans Not Fitting Deacons

Author:Francis of Assisi

“The more I see of Italy, the more I adore the Italians. They have so much heart, so much cheerfulness and gaiety, so much good humor. And the way they sing! Every now and then, when a silence falls in the streets, it is broken by some sudden singing voice, with a mellowness and a sweetness that makes you thrill.”

Way Heart Fall Voice Silence Streets Broken Singing Now And Then Thrill Adore Sweetness Cheerfulness Good Humor Gaiety

Author:Marie Van Vorst

“There is a collective as well as an individual humor inclining peoples to sadness or cheerfulness, making them see things in bright or somber lights. In fact, only society can pass a collective opinion on the value of human life; for this the individual is incompetent.”

Humans Wells Facts Light Values Individual Opinion Sadness Human Life Collectives Cheerfulness Incompetent Somber Value Of Human Life

Book:Suicide

Source: Suicide

“Why not make cheerfulness, outrageousness, playfulness a new priority for yourself? Make feeling good your expectation. You don't have to have a reason to feel good - you're alive; you can feel good for no reason at all!”

Feels Reason Feelings Alive Expectations Priorities Feel Good No Reason Why Not Cheerfulness Playfulness

Book:Awaken The Giant Within

Source: Awaken The Giant Within

“Do not allow darkness and gloom to enter into your hearts. I want to give you a rule by which you may know that the spirit which you have is the right spirit. The Spirit of God produces cheerfulness, joy, light and good feelings. Whenever you feel gloomy and despondent and are downcast, unless it be for your sins, you may know it is not the Spirit of God which you have. Fight against it and drive it out of your heart. The Spirit of God is a spirit of hope; it is not a spirit of gloom.”

“If there is one thing that is really cheerful in the world, it is cheerfulness. I have noticed it often. And I have noticed that when a man is right down cheerful, he is seldom unhappy for the time being. Such is the nature of man.”

Ifs Men World One Thing Unhappy Cheerful Cheerfulness Nature Of Man

Book:The Chicago of Europe, and Other Tales of Foreign Travel

Source: The Chicago of Europe, and Other Tales of Foreign Travel

“Cheerfulness is a policy; happiness is a talent.”

Happiness Talent Policy Cheerfulness

Author:Mason Cooley

“Then let not what I cannot have My cheer of mind destroy. Whilst thus I sing, I am a king, Although a poor blind boy!”

Mind Poor Boys Kings Blind Contentment Cheer Blindness Cheerfulness

Author:Colley Cibber

“True Shandeism, think what you will against it, opens the heart and lungs, and like all those affections which partake of its nature, it forces the blood and other vital fluids of the body to run freely thro' its channels, and makes the wheel of life run long and chearfully round.”

Thinking Heart Long Body Running Force Blood Health Rounds Affection Entertainment Wheels Lungs Fluid Cheerfulness Wheel Of Life

Author:Laurence Sterne

“Men are capable of making great sacrifices, who are not willing to make the lesser ones, on which so much of the happiness of life depends. The great sacrifices are seldom called for, but the minor ones are in daily requisition; and the making them with cheerfulness and grace enhances their value.”

Men Values Grace Sacrifice Willing Depends Capable Minors Cheerfulness Life Happiness Great Sacrifice

Author:Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

“True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.”

Mind Joy Laughing Brave Seats Resolution Rejoice Sober Cheerfulness Serene True Joy

Author:Seneca the Younger

“Laughing cheerfulness throws the light of day on all the paths of life.”

Light Laughing Path Laughter Cheerfulness

Author:Jean Paul

“It is a great disgrace to religion, to imagine that it is an enemy to mirth and cheerfulness, and a severe exacter of pensive looks and solemn faces.”

Looks Faces Religion Enemy Imagine Imagine That Severe Disgrace Solemn Cheerfulness Mirth Pensive

Author:Walter Scott

“A cheerful, easy, open countenance will make fools think you a good-natured man, and make designing men think you an undesigning one.”

Thinking Men Easy Design Fool Cheerful Cheerfulness Countenance

Author:Lord Chesterfield

“I must consider more closely this cycle of good and bad days which I find coursing within myself. Passion, attachment, the urge to action, inventiveness, performance, order all alternate and keep their orbit; cheerfulness, vigor, energy, flexibility and fatigue, serenity as well as desire. Nothing disturbs the cycle for I lead a simple life, but I must still find the time and order in which I rotate.”

“The lightsome countenance of a friend giveth such an inward decking to the house where it lodgeth, as proudest palaces have cause to envy the gilding.”

House Causes Envy Inward Palaces Cheerfulness Countenance

Author:Philip Sidney

“What can the Creator see with greater pleasure than a happy creature?”

Pleasure Greater Creatures Creator Cheerfulness

Author:Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

“Resolve to be merry though the ship were sinking.”

Courage Ships Resolve Merry Cheerfulness Sinking

Book:The wonder. The man bewitch'd. Gotham election. Wife well managed. Bickerstaff's burial. Bold stroke for a wife. Artifice

Source: The wonder. The man bewitch'd. Gotham election. Wife well managed. Bickerstaff's burial. Bold stroke for a wife. Artifice

“It is the surgeon’s duty to tranquillize the temper, to beget cheerfulness, and to impart confidence of recovery.”

Duty Recovery Temper Surgeons Cheerfulness Begets Impart

Book:The Lectures of Sir Astley Cooper: On the Principles and Practice of Surgery

Source: The Lectures of Sir Astley Cooper: On the Principles and Practice of Surgery

“There is nothing more beautiful than cheerfulness in an old face, and among country people it is always a sign of a well-regulated life.”

People Life Wells Country Beautiful Faces Cheerfulness

Author:Charles Francis Richter

“Words can mean different things to different people. It is important to understand what people mean when they use a certain word. Let's make an example. Take the word gay. Fifty years ago, gay meant exclusively cheerfulness, lighthearted excitement, merry or bright colors. Today this word has a different meaning. You won't call a cheerful person gay because it could be understood as something else.”

“O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.”

Heart Spirit Dark My Heart Holy Catholic Corners Holy Spirit Cheerful Neglected Enlightening Dwelling Beam Cheerfulness Spiritual Leadership

Author:Saint Augustine

“I think my cheerfulness keeps my writing from sinking into the depths of melancholy, while the darker side keeps in check any literary silliness I might be inclined toward.”

Thinking Writing Might Sides Depth Checks Melancholy Cheerfulness Sinking Silliness Darker Side

Author:David Starkey

“People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.”

People Happiness Enjoy Work Company Vision Cheerfulness Good Company

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)

“To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the best precepts of long lasting.”

Long Happiness Hours Sleep Exercise Meat Lasting Cheerfulness Long Lasting

Book:Lord Bacon's Essays: With a Sketch of His Life and Character, Reviews of His Philosophical Writings, Critical Estimates of His Essays, Analysis, Notes, and Queries for Students, and Select Portions of the ʻAnnotationsʼ of Archbishop Whately

Source: Lord Bacon's Essays: With a Sketch of His Life and Character, Reviews of His Philosophical Writings, Critical Estimates of His Essays, Analysis, Notes, and Queries for Students, and Select Portions of the ʻAnnotationsʼ of Archbishop Whately

“Nothing is more graceful than habitual cheerfulness.”

Happiness Cheerfulness Habitual

Book:The Theory of Moral Sentiments

Source: The Theory of Moral Sentiments

“O God, animate us to cheerfulness! May we have a joyful sense of our blessings, learn to look on the bright circumstances of our lot, and maintain a perpetual contentedness”

Looks May Circumstances Blessing Perpetual Joyful Cheerfulness Contentedness

Book:Memoir: With Extracts from His Correspondence and Manuscripts

Source: Memoir: With Extracts from His Correspondence and Manuscripts

“All succeeds with people who are sweet and cheerful.”

People Sweet Succeed Cheerful Cheerfulness

Author:Voltaire

“To do God's will as fast as it is made known to us, to inquire hourly -- I had almost said each moment -- what He requires of us, and to leave ourselves, our friends, and every interest at His control, with a cheerful trust that the path which He marks out leads to our perfection and to Himself, -- this is at once our duty and happiness; and why will we not walk in the plain, simple way?.”

Way Made Said Moments Interest Simple Walks Known Path Duty Perfection Mark Gods Will Cheerful Cheerfulness Simple Ways

Book:Memoir of William Ellery Channing, with extracts from his correspondence and manuscripts ...

Source: Memoir of William Ellery Channing, with extracts from his correspondence and manuscripts ...

“A boycott would send a clear message to Yahoo shareholders and other companies which cheerfully sacrifice human rights in return for a cut of the Chinese market.”

Humans Company Clear Cutting Rights Sacrifice Return Messages Human Rights Chinese Cheerfulness Shareholders Boycott

Author:Simon Davies

“The Bible goes equally to the cottage of the peasant, and the palace of the king. - It is woven into literature, and colors the talk of the street. The bark of the merchant cannot sail without it; and no ship of war goes to the conflict but it is there. It enters men's closets; directs their conduct, and mingles in all the grief and cheerfulness of life.”

Men War Literature Grief Streets Color Kings Conflict Ships Sail Closets Palaces Peasants Woven Cheerfulness Bark Merchants Cottages

Author:Theodore Parker

“It's been a long time since I've stood on a stage in London. Was about 14 or 15 years ago, I was 60 years old, just a kid with a crazy dream. Since then I've taken a lot of Prozac, Paxil, Wellbutrin, Effexor, Ritalin, Focalin. I've also studied deeply in the philosophies and the religions, but cheerfulness kept breaking through.”

Years Long Philosophy Dream Kids Taken Crazy Stage Long Time Years Ago London Cheerfulness Prozac Ritalin

Author:Leonard Cohen

“To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.”

“To live greatly, we must develop the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and triumph with humility. You ask, 'How might we achieve these goals?' I answer, 'By getting a true perspective of who we really are!' We are sons and daughters of a living God in whose image we have been created. Think of that truth: 'Created in the image of God!' We cannot sincerely hold this conviction without experiencing a profound new sense of strength and power, even the strength to live the commandments of God, the power to resist the temptations of Satan.”