I have tried in my time to be a philosopher; but somehow…

“Unsavoury as it is below, there is cheerfulness, and comfort, and hard, honest work above. ("In The Court Of The Dragon")”

— Robert W. Chambers

Cheerfulness means a contented spirit, a pure heart, a kind and loving disposition; it means humility and ~ charity, a generous appreciation of others,…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Even the smallest landscape can offer pride of ownership not only to its inhabitants but to its neighbors. The world delights in a garden……

— Julie Moir Messervy

The plainest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness: her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear…

— Michel De Montaigne

When you drop your unnecessary things, you finally can swoop and fly in vast space. It is so blue, so bright, and so nice,…

— Chogyam Trungpa

Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline.

— Edwin Percy Whipple

“Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers.”

— Jennifer E. Smith

Actions seems to follow feeling, but really actions and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control…

— William James

“One world is aware and by far the largest to me, and that is myself, / And whether I come to my own to-day…

— Walt Whitman

Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of…

— Adam Smith

“Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.”

— Joseph Addison

I believe that God will help us to forget things, the memory of which would do us harm, or rather that He will enable…

— Bill Vaughan

I have observed that in comedies the best actor plays the droll, while some scrub rogue is made the fine gentleman or hero. Thus…

— Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man-yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned…

— Marcus Aurelius

Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, - an open and noble temper.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson