You may have gathered that I am not the most cheerful of revellers - some characterise me as the death and soullessness… — Will Self Copy Share Image
Ten times must you laugh during the day, and be cheerful; otherwise your stomach, the father of affliction, will disturb you in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is winter time, my friend; buy couple of breads; find a place calm and quiet and feed the birds; and for… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land (and work) again after a cheerful, careless voyage. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I've always tried to be cheerful, because I think people who whine are boring, and I never could tolerate bores. — Beverly Sills Copy Share Image
And as, when all the summer trees are seen So bright and green, The Holly leaes a sober hue display Less bright… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
The city was blacked out because bombers might come, so Billy didn't get to see Dresden do one of the most cheerful… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
They all think any minute I'm going to commit suicide. What a joke. The truth of course is the exact opposite: suicide… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
When Goethe says that in every human condition foes lie in wait for us, "invincible only by cheerfulness and equanimity," he does… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
It's sad if people think that's (homemaking) a dull existance, [but] you can't just buy an apartment and furnish it and walk… — Audrey Hepburn Copy Share Image
We should have scant notion of the gardens of these New England colonists in the seventeenth century were it not for a… — Alice Morse Earle Copy Share Image
Every moment instructs, and every object; for wisdom is infused into every form. It has been poured into us as blood; it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Pete Seeger is a modest, unassuming, cheerful, and kind-natured man. He's a good folk singer, if you can stand folk singing. And… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“When we come to [work] we bring an attitude. We can bring a moody attitude and have a depressing day. We can… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think that the point of being an architect is to help raise the experience of everyday living, even a little. Putting… — David Chipperfield Copy Share Image
The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man are fixed upon the same creation; but very different are the aspects… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
May you paint this world with your colors so bright and cheerful. May all you do be so beautiful. Good Morning and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the enemy's territory, be as silent as the owl's wings; in friend's territory, be as cheerful as the nightingale's songs. — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Well, we can ride together for a while longer. The highway south is farther along this way. I'll be glad of some… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
If you attach your heart to certain places and occupations, obedience oftentimes places you in some other place that you may not… — Ignatius of Loyola Copy Share Image
Growing up and living in England, I'm surrounded by grey skies and sarcasm, so when I came to America, my first impressions… — Stanley Donwood Copy Share Image
I am gaining in health slowly, and am quite cheerful in view of my approaching end, - being fully persuaded that I… — John Brown Copy Share Image
I hide hurt behind a fake smile. I wear it all the time. Everyone says how I always look so cheerful. Shows… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
The charming aspect of Christmas is the fact that it expresses good will in a cheerful, happy, benevolent, non-sacrificial way. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“They don’t need walls and water to keep the prisoners in, not when they’re trapped inside their own heads, incapable of a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For life, good youth, hath never an illWhich hope cannot scatter, and faith cannot kill;And stubborn realities never shall bindThe free-spreading wings… — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
A man too careful of danger liveth in continual torment, But a cheerful expecter of the best hath a fountain of joy… — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
God is not a God of sadness, death, etc., but the devil is. Christ is a God of joy, and so the… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
One of the most effectual ways of pleasing and of making one's self loved is to be cheerful; joy softens more hearts… — Mme De Sartory Copy Share Image
To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
On the whole, Flora liked it better when they were silent, though it did rather give her the feeling that she was… — Stella Gibbons Copy Share Image
Honestly, the choice is: I can be a cheerful person, more awake to correction, more of a force for good ... when… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“Be cheerful ten times as much as you complain. Communicate and listen more than you are silent with others. In other words,… — Phil Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Because getting a cheerful balloon helps people picture getting better, and if you picture something it makes it so.” — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
Optimism is the cheerful frame of mind that enables a teakettle to sing, though in hot water up to its nose. — Earl Weaver Copy Share Image
The mind that is cheerful in its present state, will be averse to all solicitude as to the future, and will meet… — Horace Copy Share Image
It is difficult to realize how great a part of all that is cheerful and delightful in the recollections of our own… — Wilson Flagg Copy Share Image
The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's… — Crystal Eastman Copy Share Image
I am afraid of people because they want me to lead the same kind of life as they do. They want me… — Vaslav Nijinsky Copy Share Image