An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with. — Thomas Fuller Copy Share Image
There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If there is a virtue in the world at which we should always aim, it is cheerfulness. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Cheerfulness is full of significance: it suggests good health, a clear conscience, and a soul at peace with all human nature. — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
“it was clear that the best thing to do was to adopt a sort of muddled cheerfulness” — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
“We have a mission to others--to add to their cheer. This we cannot do unless we have first learned the lesson of… — J.R. Miller Copy Share Image
Cheerfulness is also an excellent wearing quality. It has been called the bright weather of the heart. — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendor cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Defeat I can endure with cheerfulness, my lady. But betrayal is like taking the wind from my sails, or the earth from… — Margaret George Copy Share Image
The voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, and act and speak as if… — William James Copy Share Image
When we are filled with the Spirit of God, we are filled with joy, with peace and with happiness no matter what… — George Q. Cannon Copy Share Image
Among the numerous luxuries of the table...coffee may be considered as one of the most valuable. It excites cheerfulness without intoxication; and… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I think my cheerfulness keeps my writing from sinking into the depths of melancholy, while the darker side keeps in check any… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
A fact bobbed up from my memory, that the ancient Egyptians prescribed walking through a garden as a cure for the mad.… — Paul Fleischman Copy Share Image
Cheerfulness consists in not regarding things as our own, but as entrusted to us by God for the benefit of our fellow-servants.… — Symeon the New Theologian Copy Share Image
A pessimist asked God for relief. Ah, you wish me to restore your hope and cheerfulness, said God. No, replied the petitioner,… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Having an appreciation for how amazing the people around you are leads to good places-- productive, fulfilling, peaceful places. So be happy… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think the true gardener is a lover of his flowers, not a critic of them. I think the true gardener is… — Reginald Farrer Copy Share Image
Things of the spirit are what count: brotherhood – in a day when there is too much hatred at home and abroad;… — E. Urner Goodman Copy Share Image
True Shandeism, think what you will against it, opens the heart and lungs, and like all those affections which partake of its… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
I hate above all things a cross man. What right has he to murder the sunshine of a day? What right has… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
My spirits rose as I went deeper; into the forest; but I could not regain my former elasticity of mind. I found… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Manage through the uncertainties. Practice appropriate actions and participate in healthy choices. Value and celebrate the loyalty of the individuals around you:… — Mary Anne Radmacher Copy Share Image
Our daily life is mostly, made of cases in which we lose money and/or time and/or energy and/or appetite, cheerfulness and good… — Carlo M. Cipolla Copy Share Image
O sancta simplicitas! What strange simplification and falsification mankind lives on! One can never cease to marvel once one has acquired eyes… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The Art of Success . . . Success is ninety-nine percent mental attitude. It calls for love, joy, optimism, confidence, serenity, poise,… — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
“Cheerfulness, sir, is the principal ingredient in the composition of health.” — Arthur Murphy Copy Share Image
There is no danger of developing eyestrain from looking on the bright side of things. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The most certain sign of wisdom is continual cheerfulness; her state is like the things above the moon, always clear and serene. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nurses - nurses, you'm all the same. Full of cheerfulness over other people's troubles. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
