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Quotes About Cheerfulness

It's more fun to hang out with someone who's upbeat and positive than it is to hang out with Hater McWhineypants.
~ Robin Epstein
Look for reasons to be happy, and soon you will find many!
~ Kevin J. Donaldson
Always look at the positive side of life.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Fake feeling good. ... You're going to have to learn to fake cheerfulness. Believe it or not eventually that effort will pay off: you'll actually start feeling happier.
~ Jean Bach
The day's passage was by Ralph Waldo Emerson. It read: That which befits us, embosomed in beauty and wonder as we are, is cheerfulness, and courage, and the endeavor to realize our aspirations. Shall not the heart which has received so much, trust the Power by which it lives? May it not quit other leadings, and listen to the Soul that has guided it so gently, and taught it so much, secure that the future will be worthy of the past?
~ Will Schwalbe
someone who practices Stoic principles "must, whether he wills or not, necessarily be attended by constant cheerfulness and a joy that is deep and issues from deep within, since he finds delight in his own resources, and desires no joys greater than his inner joys." Furthermore, compared to these joys, pleasures of the flesh are "paltry and trivial and fleeting."6
~ William B. Irvine
To live content with small means, to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion, to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich, to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly, to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart, to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never, in a word to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common, this is to be my symphony.
~ William Ellery Channing
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
~ William Feather
Some men are possessed of great strength of mind; and even when they pursue external objects, are not much affected by a disappointment, but renew their application and industry with the greatest chearfulness. Nothing contributes more to happiness than such a turn of mind.
~ David Hume
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
~ William Ellery Channing
We are very near the end, but have not and will not lose our good cheer.
~ Robert Falcon Scott
Cheerfulness is among the most laudable virtues. It gains you the good will and friendship of others. It blesses those who practice it and those upon whom it is bestowed.
~ B. C. Forbes
Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
~ Henry Fielding
The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility.
~ Thomas S. Monson
It is a great mitzvah to be happy always.
~ Nachman of Breslov
Nothing is more graceful than habitual cheerfulness.
~ Adam Smith
How simple and frugal a thing is happiness.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
Some people are so much sunshine to the square inch.
~ Walt Whitman
No matter what you are doing, keep the undercurrent of happiness. Learn to be secretly happy within your heart in spite of all circumstances.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
To live long and achieve happiness, cultivate the art of radiating happiness.
~ Malcolm Forbes
Make us happy and you make us good.
~ Robert Browning
It costs nothing to smile. Do it as often as possible
~ Shayan Italia
Carry cheerfulness as well as positive vibes with you and leave a trail of joy wherever you go.
~ Latika Teotia
If you are healthy, be happy.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita