“it was clear that the best thing to do was to adopt a sort of muddled cheerfulness” — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
The path to cheerfulness is to sit cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there. — William James Copy Share Image
[Grateful] Cheerfulness is health; its opposite, [ungrateful] melancholy, is disease. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton Copy Share Image
The happiness of married life depends upon making small sacrifices with readiness and cheerfulness. — John Selden Copy Share Image
Extreme cold when it first arrives seems to generate cheerfulness and sociability. For a few hours all life's dubious problems are dropped… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
A day so happy. Fog lifted early. I worked in the garden. Hummingbirds were stopping over honeysuckle flowers. There was no thing… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
You know I'm old in some ways-in others-well, I'm just a little girl. I like sunshine and pretty things and cheerfulness-and I… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Let's be cheerful! We have no more right to steal the brightness out of the day for our own family than we… — Laura Ingalls Wilder Copy Share Image
Fake feeling good… You're going to have to learn to fake cheerfulness. Believe it or not, eventually that effort will pay off:… — Jean Bach Copy Share Image
Cheerfulness is the daughter of employment; and I have known a man come home in high spirits from a funeral, merely because… — William Cornelius Van Horne Copy Share Image
A fact bobbed up from my memory, that the ancient Egyptians prescribed walking through a garden as a cure for the mad.… — Paul Fleischman Copy Share Image
Happiness comes to those who are moving toward something they want very much to happen. And it almost always involves making someone… — Earl Nightingale Copy Share Image
I have always wanted to be part of something special, and when I got to Boston.. actually, when I bought, begged and… — Bill Walton Copy Share Image
“The youth and cheerfulness of morning are in happy analogy, and of powerful operation; and if the distress be not poignant enough… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
...for though she was ordinary, she possessed health, wit, courage, charm, and cheerfulness. But because she was not beautiful, no one ever… — M.M. Kaye Copy Share Image
“He remembered enthusiasm, hope, and a kind of jubilation or exultation. Cheerfulness, yes, and joviality, and the brief gratification of sex. Gladness,… — Evan S. Connell Copy Share Image
That which befits us, embosomed in beauty and wonder as we are, is cheerfulness, and courage, and the endeavor to realize our… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I must consider more closely this cycle of good and bad days which I find coursing within myself. Passion, attachment, the urge… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I find the love of garden grows upon me as I grow older more and more. Shrubs and flowers and such small… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
The foods that prolong life and increase purity, vigour, health, cheerfulness, and happiness are those that are delicious, soothing, substantial and agreeable...… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Jamie was more than just the woman I loved. In the year Jamie helped me become the man I am today. With… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
I suppose the thing I most would have liked to have known or been reassured about is that in the world, what… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image