Foolish talking and jesting are not the ways in which Christian cheerfulness should express itself, but rather "giving of thanks" (Eph. 5:4).… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
“Optimism: That effervescent, blindingly- bright, perky, chipper, twittering quality you want to squash out of annoying people.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Jo gave her sister an encouraging pat on the shoulder as they parted for the day, each going a different way, each… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
To watch the corn grow, and the blossoms set; to draw hard breath over ploughshare or spade; to read, to think, to… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
A cheerful temper, joined with innocence will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful, and wit good-natured. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The path to cheerfulness is to sit cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there. — William James Copy Share Image
So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Cheerful looks make every dish a feast, and it is that which crowns a welcome. — Philip Massinger Copy Share Image
That awkward moment when you pose nude for your art teacher and you flunk the course. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“To stay cheerful when involved in a gloomy and exceedingly responsible business is no inconsiderable art: yet what could be more necessary… — Frederich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Sometimes the simplest gestures, smallest compliments or just knowing that someone is thinking about you can be enough to a make you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Words can mean different things to different people. It is important to understand what people mean when they use a certain word.… — Ali Sina Copy Share Image
Rally GB is obviously very special to me, so I am very much looking forward to competing in my home event and… — Colin McRae Copy Share Image
A healthy and wholesome cheerfulness is not necessarily impossible to any occupation. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
One more royal trait properly belongs to the poet. I mean his cheerfulness, without which no man can be a poet,--for beauty… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A source of cheerfulness to a good mind is the consideration of that Being on whom we have our dependence, and in… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Men are capable of making great sacrifices, who are not willing to make the lesser ones, on which so much of the… — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
My caddy today was a Scot and he told me that he was cheering for Australia, which I thought was a bit… — Andrew Strauss Copy Share Image
It takes a Mother's Patience, to bring a child up right, And her Courage and her Cheerfulness to make a dark day… — Helen Steiner Rice Copy Share Image
