I don't think you should have to try to be nice, I think most people are nice. I think being cheerful and… — Graham Norton Copy Share Image
Growing up and living in England, I'm surrounded by grey skies and sarcasm, so when I came to America, my first impressions… — Stanley Donwood Copy Share Image
The kinder and more intelligent a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people. Kindness enriches our life; with… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
There is nothing sadder than the cheerful letters of the dead, expressing hopes that were never fulfilled, ambitions that were never achieved,… — Barbara Mertz Copy Share Image
As we explore the nature of our gift, our goal is to move toward this kind of giving: cheerful giving that flows… — Wayne Muller Copy Share Image
A lot of my paintings have quite negative meanings, but painted in a bright and cheerful way. — Ben Eine Copy Share Image
“Never forget that people need what you need and people need what you have.” — Kingsley Opuwari Manuel Copy Share Image
A cheerful, easy, open countenance will make fools think you a good-natured man, and make designing men think you an undesigning one. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
It’s admirable, what you do, what she does, but to me animal-welfare people are a bit like Christians of a certain kind.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have produced things that I would say were sincerely cheerful. But then I am reminded by other people that no one… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
“Here sighs and cries and shrieks of lamentation echoed throughout the starless air of Hell; at first these sounds resounding made me… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
Stay, little cheerful Robin! stay, And at my casement sing, Though it should prove a farewell lay And this our parting spring.… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
In one point of view, we, the abolitionists and colored people, should meet [the Dred Scott] decision, unlooked for and monstrous as… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
What comfort there is in a cheerful spirit! how the heart leaps up to meet a sunshiny face, a merry tongue, an… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik 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
Ten times must you laugh during the day, and be cheerful; otherwise your stomach, the father of affliction, will disturb you in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Despite of it all, the Negro remains... cool, strong, imperturbable, and cheerful. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Let the soul be assured that somewhere in the universe it should rejoin its friend, and it would be content and cheerful… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the enemy's territory, be as silent as the owl's wings; in friend's territory, be as cheerful as the nightingale's songs. — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Much of the possibility of being cheerful comes from the faculty of throwing oneself beyond oneself. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
The early months of marriage often are times of critical tumult,--whether that of a shrimp pool or of deeper water,--which afterwards subside… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I am quite a cheerful, dark person. On the outside, I'm optimistic but I expect the worst to happen. — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and… — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
