We speak much of the duty of making others happy. No day should pass, we say, on which we do not put… — J.R. Miller Copy Share Image
What is more cheerful, now, in the fall of the year, than an open-wood-fire? Do you hear those little chirps and twitters… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
I confess I love littleness almost in all things. A little convenient estate, a little cheerful house, a little company, and a… — Abraham Cowley Copy Share Image
As a result of all this hardship, dirt, thirst, and wombats, you would expect Australians to be a dour lot. Instead, they… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
A willing, cheerful worker, with his heart in his job, will turn out more work and more satisfactory work in 44 hours… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
We owed so much to Herbert's ever cheerful industry and readiness, that I often wondered how I had conceived that old idea… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Holy love has a way of consuming some. This is what is meant by the one who said, 'You have ravished our… — John Climacus Copy Share Image
Blest be that spot, where cheerful guests retire To pause from toil, and trim their evening fire; Blest that abode, where want… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
The secret of happiness is in a cheerful, contented mind. He is poor who is dissatisfied; he is rich who is contented… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
I've always tried to be cheerful, because I think people who whine are boring, and I never could tolerate bores. — Beverly Sills Copy Share Image
Vaudeville was characterized by sunny optimism, acts that were uplifting, cheerful, and clean. It provided a fanciful, magical escape, but after Black… — Karen Abbott Copy Share Image
And feeling clever, I've always thought, is just a sigh away from being cheerful. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
If you are melancholy for the first time, you will find, upon a little inquiry, that others have been melancholy many times,… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
For other things mild Heav'n a time ordains, And disapproves that care, though wise in show, That with superfluous burden loads the… — John Milton Copy Share Image
We who are quotatious are never truly alone, but always hear the cheerful flow of remarks made by dead writers so much… — Joseph Epstein Copy Share Image
He that loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter. By study,… — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
Let the mind be cheerful but calm. Never let it run into excesses, because every excess will be followed by a reaction. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
She was bedridden falling a fall which broke her hip. X-rays showed that she had cancer of the colon which had already… — Adeline Yen Mah Copy Share Image
I am glad to think I am not bound to make the world go right, but only to discover and to do,… — Jean Ingelow Copy Share Image
Few know the joys that spring from a disinterested curiosity. It is like a cheerful spirit that leads us through worlds filled… — John Lancaster Spalding 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
Rising from the dead? Glowing at sunrise? What did that make him, the god of cheerful mornings and macabre surprises? — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
A cheerful intelligent face is the end of culture, and success enough. For it indicates the purpose of Nature and wisdom attained. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Tis the privilege of Art Thus to play its cheerful part, Man on earth to acclimate And bend the exile to his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
