Recipe for success: Be polite, prepare yourself for whatever you are asked to do, keep yourself tidy, be cheerful, don't be envious,… — Bernard Baruch Copy Share Image
Those seeking the life of the spirit should be cheerful and free, and not neglect recreation. Married people must act in conformity… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
It is not cheerful for a girl to discover within twenty-four hours of her wedding that her husband is a hopeless drunkard,… — William John Locke Copy Share Image
Life has, indeed, many ills, but the mind that views every object in its most cheering aspect, and every doubtful dispensation as… — Lydia Sigourney Copy Share Image
You can find many philosophy papers on the themes of 'love' and 'friendship,' most of which are cheerful and somewhat anodyne; you… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
Fits of depression come over the most of us. Usually cheerful as we may be, we must at intervals be cast down.… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
When we are working at a difficult task and strive after a good thing, we are fighting a righteous battle, the direct… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
One can imagine a sane, healthy, cheerful human society based on no more than the principles of common sense, as validated each… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Happiness is an undercurrent of sensitivity and leads a surreptitious life: it is an internal eventuality. We can feel it in stillness… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
If I may trust the flattering truth of sleep, My dreams presage some joyful news at hand. My bosom's lord sits lightly… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Sweetheart,' 'darling,' 'luv.' I like these words; they fit me like a comfortable old pullover. I remember them from childhood; that's what… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
Oh yes, there's lots of great food in America. But the fast food is about as destructive and evil as it gets.… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Bob Dylan seems to me a totally pernicious influence - the nasal whine of death and masochism. Certainly, this would be a… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
I'd lay down my life for her - Mas'r Davy - Oh! most content and cheerful! She's more to me - gent'lmen… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“"The men whom I have seen succeed best in life have always been cheerful and hopeful men, who went about their business… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
Don't talk to me about the world needing cheerful stuff! What the person out of Belsen physical or psychological wants is nobody… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Among all the accomplishments of youth there is none preferable to a decent and agreeable behavior among men, a modest freedom of… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
The mother cannot expect her daughter to understand the mysteries of housekeeping without education. She should instruct them patiently, lovingly, and make… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
Come, my friend, forget your foes, and leave your fears behind, And wander forth to try your luck, with cheerful, quiet mind;… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
The ways of Providence being inscrutable, and the justice of it not to be scanned by the shallow eye of humanity, nor… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The trouble with traditional American conservatism is that it lacks a naturally cheerful, optimistic disposition. Not only does it lack one, it… — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
Subordinates look for their bosses to be positive, in good humor, and cheerful. They aren't supposed to be emotional or have bad… — Donald T. Phillips Copy Share Image
At this unprecedented juncture in our history I have a word for you. Do not be disheartened by our temporary defeat ;… — Subhas Chandra Bose Copy Share Image
I accept that speculation, cheerful or otherwise, about the private life is something public figures must expect, but I am lucky enough… — Crispin Blunt Copy Share Image
The duty of happiness becomes clearer when we see how it affects others. It is the merry heart that makes the cheerful… — Hugh Black Copy Share Image
I would not say that old men grow wise, for men never grow wise; and many old men retain a very attractive… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Be cheerful [and grateful for the good that you have]: do not brood over fond hopes unrealized until a chain is fastened… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
Now is the only time. How we relate to it creates the future. In other words, if we're going to be more… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced. . . . It is that absence of being able to envisage… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you offer people a decent service, if you give them you know Internet access, if their phones are not cut off… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
The first sign that you are becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful. When a man is gloomy, that may be… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Nah, you always look good. As for me … well, it's hard to explain. The auras are getting to me. There's so… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
“All the things that you said when you thought I wasn't there, I just tell them to my corner, 'cause no one… — Margo T. Rose Copy Share Image
I've had lots of good career advice over the years. I've learned that you must always arrive knowing your lines, you must… — Jacki Weaver Copy Share Image
Happiness is in our own hearts. I have no regrets of anything in the past. I'm totally cheerful and happy, and I… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
What wonders does not wine! It discloses secrets; ratifies and confirms our hopes; thrusts the coward forth to battle; eases the anxious… — Horace Copy Share Image
Life is like a blanket too short. You pull it up and your toes rebel, you yank it down and shivers meander… — Marion Howard Copy Share Image
Individuals we consider happy commonly seem complete in the present and we see them constantly in their wholeness: attentive, cheerful, open rather… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
She was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight, A lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament;… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
It is very important that children learn from their fathers and mothers how to love one another- not in the school, not… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image