Quotes About Cheerfulness

Cheerfulness is as natural to the heart of a man in strong health, as color to his cheek; and wherever there is habitual gloom, there must be either bad air, unwholesome food, improperly severe labor, or erring habits of life.

You may be perplexed in business; your prospects may grow darker and darker, and you may be threatened with loss; but do not become discouraged; cast your care upon God, and remain calm and cheerful. . . .

Don't you mean to lecture me on the evils of illicit relationships?' 'No. I am quite certain you are aware of the disagreeable consequences if the /ton/ were to discover your activities. But I have found that occasionally a small peccadillo that harms no one can be conducive to a cheerful disposition.

Happiness/cheerfulness/lovefulness gives rise to youthful/gorgeous look/appearance. But, the reverse is the case with unhappiness/uncheerfulness/hatefulness i.e. you should be happy/cheerful/loveful always. For, it really pays.

Live happily, give cheerfully, as well receive all things thankfully or gratefully. For, if you dare to live happily, give cheerfully and resolve to receive all things thankfully. Believe you me, longevity will be your portion, prosperity will run after you. And above all, you will be remembered and celebrated eventually. Even by the posterity (all future generations). -Emeasoba George

A good smile is the sunshine of wisdom.

it was clear that the best thing to do was to adopt a sort of muddled cheerfulness

In questo mondo non c'è posto per le cose tristi. Nessun posto.

If I try to say what it is now, it's very simple: I realised the world did not exist for my benefit. It followed that the ratio of pleasant and unpleasant things around me would not change. It wasn't up to me. It was clear that the best thing to do was to adopt a sort of muddled cheerfulness.

In this world, there is no place for sadness. No place; not one.

And before long I should be certain to find myself at this sink peeling potatoes and washing up; that would be a nice change when both proof-reading and indexing began to pall. Was any man worth this burden ? Probably not but one shouldered it bravely and cheerfully and in the end it might turn out to be not so heavy after all.

Let us instance one respect in which American life has recently undergone a great change. We allude to its increased devotion to pleasure, to happiness, to dancing, to sport... to the delights of the country, to laughter, and to all forms of cheerfulness.

I found cheerfulness to be like life itself—not to be created by any argument. Afterwards I learned, that the best way to manage some kinds of pain filled thoughts, is to dare them to do their worst; to let them lie and gnaw at your heart till they are tired; and you find you still have a residue of life they cannot kill.

My spirits rose as I went deeper; into the forest; but I could not regain my former elasticity of mind. I found cheerfulness to be like life itself--not to be created by any argument. Pg. 108

Mrs Hendred did not like the people around her to be unhappy. Even the sight of a housemaid crying with the pain of the toothache made her feel low, for misery had no place in her comfortable existence; and when it obtruded itself on her notice it dimmed the warm sunshine in which she basked, and quite ruined her belief in a world where everyone was contented, and affluent, and cheerful.

Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.

I try not to take myself too seriously. I like to have a good time.

I'm not serious most of the time.

So many people are walking around looking so grim all the time. I just never understand why.

But it is a blessed provision of nature that at times like these, as soon as a man's mercury has got down to a certain point there comes a revulsion, and he rallies. Hope springs up, and cheerfulness along with it, and then he is in good shape to do something for himself, if anything can be done.

To secure and promote this feeling of cheerfulness should be the supreme aim of all our endeavors after happiness.

Cheerfulness will help you draw strangers, cleverness will help gain acquaintances, faithfulness will help you keep companions, and kindness will help you multiply friends.

Seek joyfulness when you can, for seeking joy leads to an auspicious atmosphere.

The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully.