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Quotes About Cheerfulness

Consequently, we should try as much as possible to maintain a high degree of health; for cheerfulness is the very flower of it.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
But to think well of all, to be cheerful with all, to patiently learn to find the good in all—such unselfish thoughts are the very portals of heaven; and to dwell day by day in thoughts of peace toward every creature will bring abounding peace to their possessor.
~ James Allen
I have tried too in my time to be a philosopher; but, I don't know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in.
~ James Boswell
To make knowledge valuable, you must have the cheerfulness of wisdom.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
[Gratitude is] the cheerfulness of wisdom.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
At some point in my early forties I realized that my primary goal in just about any verbal exchange is to lighten the mood.
~ Meghan Daum
My baseline function is I'm usually really happy and optimistic. I think I really genuinely like being alive, and I've got a spring in my step - that's what I've been like all my life.
~ Jenny Slate
When I get on stage, my first goal is not to show my expertise, but on the contrary, to give a bit of happiness, of joy, of cheerfulness. I am firmly convinced that in order to sing well, you must love your neighbor and be passionate about life.
~ Andrea Bocelli
Instead of last man standing, it'll be last man smiling.
~ John Currin
A good-natured man has the whole world to be happy out of.
~ Alexander Pope
Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.
~ Thomas Carlyle
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~ Nora Roberts
Start every day with a smile because smile makes life beautiful.
~ Larry Kassel
A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.
~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
Have a great day!" she sang as she left, flashing just the quickest middle finger as she walked past
~ Lauren Weisberger
Sacredness is not trying to look on the bright side of life and using that as a stepping-stone, but it is unconditional cheerfulness that has no other side.
~ Chogyam Trungpa
A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
You will find that life's still worthwhile... if you just smile!
~ Charles Chaplin
Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers and are famous preservers of youthful looks.
~ Charles Dickens
Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks.
~ Charles Dickens
I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall do till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.
~ Charles Dickens
There was nothing very cheerful in the climate or the town, and yet was there an air of cheerfulness abroad that the clearest summer air and brightest summer sun might have endeavoured to diffuse in vain.
~ Charles Dickens
Scanty and insufficient suppers those, and innocent of meat, as if most other sauce to wretched bread. Yet, human fellowship infused some nourishment into the flinty viands, and struck some sparks of cheerfulness out of them. Fathers and mothers who had had their full share in the worst of the day, played gently with their meager children; and lovers, with such a word around then and before them, loved and hoped.
~ Charles Dickens
Heaven be thanked, I love its light and feel the cheerfulness it sheds upon the earth, as much as any creature living.
~ Charles Dickens