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CHEERFULNESs quotes
A cheerful temper joined with innocence will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful, and wit good-natured. It will lighten sickness, poverty, and affliction; convert ignorance into an amiable simplicity, and render deformity itself agreeable.
I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The former is an act, the latter a habit of the mind. Mirth is short and transient; cheerfulness, fixed and permanent. 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, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
To be free-minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meals, and of sleep, and of exercise, is one of the best precepts of long-lasting.
If my heart were not light, I would die.
The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the offshoot of goodness.
You have not fulfilled every duty unless you have fulfilled that of being cheerful and pleasant.
Always look out for the sunlight the Lord sends into your days.
Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.
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 persevere in it longer, than the sad or sullen.
Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, altogether past calculation its powers of endurance. Efforts, to be permanently useful, must be uniformly joyous,—a spirit all sunshine, graceful from very gladness, beautiful because bright.
You find yourself refreshed by the presence of cheerful people.—Why not make earnest effort to confer that pleasure on others?—Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy.
Not having enough sunshine is what ails the world.—Make people happy, and there will not be half the quarreling, or a tenth part of the wickedness there now is.
To make knowledge valuable, you must have the cheerfulness of wisdom. Goodness smiles to the last.
An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.
The true source of cheerfulness is benevolence.—The soul that perpetually overflows with kindness and sympathy will always be cheerful.
If the soul be happily disposed everything becomes capable of affording entertainment, and distress will almost want a name.
Cheerfulness is health; its opposite, melancholy, is disease.
Be cheerful: do not brood over fond hopes unrealized until a chain is fastened on each thought and wound around the heart. Nature intended you to be the fountain-spring of cheerfulness and social life, and not the monument of despair and melancholy.
The mind that is cheerful at present will have no solicitude for the future, and will meet the bitter occurrences of life with a smile.
To be happy, the temperament must be cheerful and gay, not gloomy and melancholy.—A propensity to hope and joy, is real riches; one to fear and sorrow, is real poverty.
Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and the laughter abundant.
The habit of looking on the best side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year.
Every one must have felt that a cheerful friend is like a sunny day, which sheds its brightness on all around; and most of us can, as we choose, make of this world either a palace or a prison.
If I can put one touch of a rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
Cheerful looks make every dish a feast; and it is that which crowns a welcome.
The highest wisdom is continual cheerfulness; such a state, like the region above the moon, is always clear and serene.
Burdens become light when cheerfully borne.
Climate has much to do with cheerfulness, but nourishing food, a good digestion, and good health much more.
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.
I had rather have a fool make me merry, than experience make me sad.
A light heart lives long.
Every time a man smiles, and much more when he laughs, it adds something to his fragment of life.
If good people would but make their goodness agreeable, and smile instead of frowning in their virtue, how many would they win to the good cause.
Cheerfulness is a friend to grace; it puts the heart in tune to praise God, and so honors religion by proclaiming to the world that we serve a good master.—Be serious, yet cheerful.—Rejoice in the Lord always.
God is glorified, not by our groans but by our thanksgivings; and all good thought and good action claim a natural alliance with good cheer.
Be cheerful always. There is no path but will be easier traveled, no load but will be lighter, no shadow on heart and brain but will lift sooner for a person of determined cheerfulness.
Get into the habit of looking for the silver lining of the cloud, and, when you have found it, continue to look at it, rather than at the leaden gray in the middle. It will help you over many hard places.
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