Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age. — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline. — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly; devils fall because of their gravity. — G K Chesterton Copy Share Image
Some people would be discontented in Paradise, others ... are cheerful in a graveyard. — Arthur Lynch Copy Share Image
I think sometimes people think cheerful is a synonym for dumb, so no one is ever cheerful. — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
In the belly of Leviathan ... one can either despair and perish, or be cheerful and persevere. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The cheerful mind perseveres and the strong mind hews its way through a thousand difficulties. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Oh! blest with temper, whose unclouded ray Can make to-morrow cheerful as to-day. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“Do try to be more cheerful and take life as you find it -The Scarecrow - The Marvellous Land Of Oz by… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
One of the weaknesses of the company now is it is a bit cheap and cheerful and overly nasty, and that reflects… — Michael O'Leary Copy Share Image
Even though I don't ask, Plutarch gives me cheerful updates on the phone like "Good news, Katniss! I think we've almost got… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Adverbs is a book about love, and I thought that was pretty cheerful, but people who are reading it now are telling… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
I think that people like the idea that fans are sort of slightly eccentric and strange, but generally I've just found them… — Peter Capaldi Copy Share Image
“When he's cheerful his tongue runs away with him, and he's depressed he can be unkind. So it's common sense not to… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
A deliberate attitude that you have to hold in your mind as one of the basic rules of yoga is to remain… — Goswami Kriyananda Copy Share Image
…a cheerful black shadow reared up behind him as he spoke, thundering a happy challenge to my Dark Passenger, which slid forward… — Jeff Lindsay Copy Share Image
To do God's will as fast as it is made known to us, to inquire hourly -- I had almost said each… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
The spirit of true religion breathes gentleness and affability; it gives a native, unaffected ease to the behavior; it is social, kind,… — Hugh Blair Copy Share Image
Divorced women, compared to married women, are less satisfied with their lives, which is not surprising. But they're actually more cheerful, when… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Though it is folly to suppose that happiness is a matter of volition, and that we can make ourselves content and cheerful… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
You wonderful girls, dress modestly and keep yourselves physically clean. Be cheerful and happy. Be positive about life. Then the Holy Spirit… — F. Melvin Hammond Copy Share Image
Live in rooms full of light. Avoid heavy food. Be moderate in the drinking of wine. Take massage, baths, exercise, and gymnastics.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The succession of cheerful, period musicals I made, plus Oscar Levant's widely publicized remark about my virginity, contributed to what has been… — Doris Day Copy Share Image
I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Having still in my recollection so many excellent men, to whose grandfathers, upon the same spots, my grandfather had yielded cheerful obedience… — William Cobbett Copy Share Image
She was bedridden falling a fall which broke her hip. X-rays showed that she had cancer of the colon which had already… — Adeline Yen Mah Copy Share Image
The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was… — Frederic William Maitland Copy Share Image
Courage has become Raiders of the Lost Ark, or riding in spaceships, killing people, taking enormous physical risks. To me, the kind… — Mary Pipher Copy Share Image
These thoughts are depressing I know. They are depressing, I wish I was more cheerful, it is more pleasant, Also it is… — Stevie Smith Copy Share Image
The future seems a little gloomy! Go to bed early, sleep well, eat moderately at breakfast; the future looks brighter. The world's… — Arthur Lynch Copy Share Image
I was deeply influenced by the sartorial practices of both preachers and jazz musicians and actually Masha in Act One of Anton… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
By the time they were pulling into the parking lot of the A&P, the mood was fading, the moment gone. Amy could… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image