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“The duty of happiness becomes clearer when we see how it affects others. It is the merry heart that makes the cheerful countenance, and it is the cheerful countenance that spreads cheer to make other hearts merry. The sunny soul brings sunshine everywhere. A bright and happy temperament is a great social asset, adding to the happiness of the world.”

World Heart Soul Happiness Social Duty Spread Sunshine Assets Cheer Cheerful Temperament Merry Sunny Countenance

Book:Happiness

Source: Happiness

“The desert floras shame us with their cheerful adaptations to the seasonal limitations. Their whole duty is to flower and fruit, and they do it hardly, or with tropical luxuriance, as the rain admits. ... One hopes the land may breed like qualities in her human offspring, not tritely to 'try,' but to do.”

Trying Humans May Whole Quality Land Flower Duty Rain Shame Fruit Limitation Desert Cheerful Adaptation Offspring Tropical Flora

Book:Stories from the Country of Lost Borders

Source: Stories from the Country of Lost Borders

“Innocent amusements are such as excite moderately, and such as produce a cheerful frame of mind, not boisterous mirth; such as refresh, instead of exhausting, the system; such as recur frequently, rather than continue long; such as send us back to our daily duties invigorated in body and spirit; such as we can partake of in the presence and society of respectable friends; such as consist with and are favorable to a grateful piety; such as are chastened by self-respect, and are accompanied with the consciousness that life has a higher end than to be amused.”

“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?.”

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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 ...

“It is our daily duty to consider that in all circumstances of life, pleasurable, painful, or otherwise, the conduct of others, especially of those in the same house; and that, as life is made up, for the most part, not of great occasions, but of small everyday moments, it is the giving to those moments their greatest amount of peace, pleasantness, and security, that contributes most to the sum of human good. Be peaceable. Be cheerful. Be true.”

Giving Humans Made Moments Life Is House Security Duty Amount Circumstances Everyday Painful Being True Occasions Cheerful Everyday Moments

Author:Leigh Hunt

“We speak much of the duty of making others happy. No day should pass, we say, on which we do not put a little cheer into some discouraged heart, make the path a little smoother for someone’s tired feet, or help some fainting robin unto its nest again. This is right. We cannot put too great emphasis upon the duty of giving happiness and cheer to others. But it is no less a duty that we should be happy and cheerful ourselves.”

Giving Should Heart Littles Helping Speak Path Feet Duty Tired Cheer Emphasis Cheerful Discouraged Nests Robins Fainting

Author:J.R. Miller