Quotes About Cheerfulness

Cheerfulness is what greases the axles of the world. Don't go through life creaking.

Sometimes, and having someone agree with you, can make you feel better about a terrible situation. "I hate everything about our lives right now, Klaus," she said, "but we have to keep our chin up." This was an expression the children's father had used, and it meant "try to stay cheerful." -P. 32

You are a philosopher, Dr. Johnson. I have tried to in my time to be a philosopher; but I don't know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in.

She was stronger alone; and her own good sense so well supported her, that her firmness was as unshaken, her appearance of cheerfulness as invariable, as, with regrets so poignant and so fresh, it was possible for them to be.

The youth and cheerfulness of morning are in happy analogy, and of powerful operation; and if the distress be not poignant enough to keep the eyes unclosed, they will be sure to open to sensations of softened pain and brighter hope.

though under temporary gloom at night, the return of day will hardly fail to bring return of spirits. The youth and cheerfulness of morning are in happy analogy, and of powerful operation; and if the distress be not poignant enough to keep the eyes unclosed, they will be sure to open to sensations of softened pain and brighter hope.

Anne, judging from her own temperament, would have deemed such a domestic hurricane a bad restorative of the nerves... but Mrs. Musgrove... concluded a short recapitulation of what she had suffered herself, by observing, with a happy glance round the room, that after all she had gone through, nothing was so likely to do her good as a little quiet cheerfulness at home.

Nothing was so likely to do her good as a little quiet cheerfulness at home.

He rushed to the dish, crammed everything into his cheeks, and rushed back to his soup can, where he hunkered in butt side out, vibrating with happiness and good fortune. That's the neat part about a hamster. It doesn't take much to make a hamster happy.

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

Courage, cheerfulness, and a desire to work depends mostly on good nutrition.

I say, Bertie, he said, after a pause of about an hour and a quarter. Hallo! Do you like the name Mabel? No. No? No. You don't think there's a kind of music in the word, like the wind rustling gently through the tree-tops? No. He seemed disappointed for a moment; then cheered up. Of course, you wouldn't. You always were a fat-headed worm without any soul, weren't you? Just as you say. Who is she? Tell me all.

Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not. "Thus the sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there...

So little do we see before us in the world and so much reason have we to depend cheerfully upon the great Maker of the world, that He does not leave His creatures so absolutely destitute but that in the worst circumstances they have always something to be thankful for, and sometimes are nearer their deliverance than they imagine; nay, are even brought to their deliverance by the means by which they seem to be brought to destruction.

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

Miss Fairlie laughed with a ready good-humour, which broke out as brightly as if it had been part of the sunshine above us…

Miss Fairlie laughed with a ready good-humour, which broke out as brightly as if it had been part of the sunshine above us, over her lovely face. I

Actions seems to follow feeling, but really actions and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not. Thus the sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there.

A smile will gain you ten more years of life

That's why I'm giving you Gaius Julius Caesar. Every time you look at him, I want you to imagine him saying: 'Tom, for god's sake cheer up!' " Alistair whipped the cat around when he said this, so that it addressed Tom directly.

Jolly' is about slapping on a smile and making the best of what you've got. It's the fleeting moments of joy, and laughter, and dogs pushing trollies outside Lidl, that all of us can notice and celebrate. Happiness is in the small things. So stay 'jolly'.

The fire is the main comfort of the camp, whether in summer or winter, and is about as ample at one season as at another. It is as well for cheerfulness as for warmth and dryness.

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.

A person without a sense of humour is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.