Resolve to be merry though the ship were sinking.

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

— Edwin Percy Whipple

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

— Joseph Addison

“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

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

“Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers.”

— Jennifer E. Smith

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson