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Quotes About Cheerfulness

Oh, of course he's good, agreed Anne. But he doesn't seem to get any comfort out of it. If I could be good I'd dance and sing all day because I was glad of it.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Smile and smile often. Smile regularly. Smile when you don't feel like it and you will feel like it when you smile.
~ B. J. Palmer
Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies
~ Rashida Jones
You are not fully dressed until you wear a smile.
~ Evan Esar
When you wake up in the morning, smile - and get it over with.
~ W. C. Fields
You have to smile after making trouble. This way you get in less trouble.
~ EunB
Smile my boy, it's sunrise
~ Robin Williams
Always smile, make everyone happy, It can change the way a day is going, even deep in your heart you are sad .
~ BoRio
Start every day with a smile because smile makes life beautiful.
~ Larry Kassel
You are never fully dressed until you put on a smile!
~ Les Miserables
workplace dynamics are no less complicated or unexpectedly intense than family relations, with only the added difficulty that whereas families are at least well-recognised and sanctioned loci for hysteria reminiscent of scenes from Medea, office life typically proceeds behind a mask of shallow cheerfulness, leaving workers grievously unprepared to handle the fury and sadness continually aroused by their colleagues.
~ Alain de Botton
Lighten up and do what makes you happy.
~ Alan Cohen
If there is no element of asceticism in our lives, if we give free rein to the desires of the flesh (taking care of course to keep within the limits of what seems permissible to the world), we shall find it hard to train for the service of Christ. When the flesh is satisfied it is hard to pray with cheerfulness or to devote oneself to a life of service which calls for much self-renunciation.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I could hear the voice that, speaking to me, was always tender with pity—yet not pity enough to wound: I could see the peculiar smile just creeping round his grave mouth—that irrepressible smile, indicating the atmosphere of thorough heart-cheerfulness, which ripens all the fruits of a noble nature, and without which the very noblest has about it something unwholesome, blank, and cold.
~ Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
Until further notice, celebrate everything.
~ Anonymous
I would advocate that you show me your smiling face, and how happy you can make your life.
~ Andy Biersack
Good cheer is no hindrance to a good life.
~ Aristippus
Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks.
~ Charles Dickens
Looking on the bright side of life never killed anybody.
~ Jenny Han
Pinker quotes Chomsky's remark that 'ignorance can be divided into problems and mysteries' and continues: 'I wrote this book because dozens of mysteries of the mind, from mental images to romantic love, have recently been upgraded to problems (though there are still some mysteries too!)' Well, cheerfulness sells books, but Ecclesiastes got it right: 'the heart of the wise is in the house of mourning.
~ Jerry Fodor
Friendliness, cheerfulness, and everything that a smile is supposed to express, become automatic responses which one turns on and off like an electric switch.
~ Erich Fromm
Life is not THAT serious..let's take humor more seriously !
~ Andrew Matthews
While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.
~ H. G. Wells
Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God.
~ Adam Smith