I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as a habit of mind. Mirth… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Prayer is the place of refuge for every worry, a foundation for cheerfulness, a source of constant happiness, a protection against sadness. — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
If you have to have it, it's ego. If you have to not have it, it's ego. Hold life lightly and it… — Alan Cohen Copy Share Image
“Don't look shy if you wear rag and people gag, many are in the grave wearing skeleton, and you should even be… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“There was nothing very cheerful about the cold, and yet there was an air of cheerfulness that the cleverest summer air and… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
The lightsome countenance of a friend giveth such an inward decking to the house where it lodgeth, as proudest palaces have cause… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
Happy is the man who loves the woods and waters, Brother to the grass and well beloved of Pan; The earth shall… — Richard Le Gallienne 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
“The man who finds that in the course of his life he has done a lot of wrong often wakes up at… — Plato 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… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Nothing will supply the want of sunshine to peaches, and, to make knowledge valuable, you must have the cheerfulness of wisdom. Whenever… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I realized that the world did not exist for my benefit. It followed that the ratio of pleasant and unpleasant things around… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
The spiritual uplift, the goodwill, cheerfulness and optimism that accompanies every expedition to the outdoors is the peculiar spirit that our people… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Cheerfulness removes the rust from the mind, lubricates our inward machinery, and enables us to do our work with fewer creaks and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Cheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vitae of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Courage and cheerfulness will not only carry you over the rough places in life, but will enable you to bring comfort and… — William Osler Copy Share Image
You've achieved cheerfulness the day you realize that no matter what's happening around you, being anything other than cheerful will not make… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
“Unsavoury as it is below, there is cheerfulness, and comfort, and hard, honest work above. ("In The Court Of The Dragon")” — Robert W. Chambers 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
If the soul be happily disposed, every thing becomes capable of affording entertainment, and distress will almost want a name. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“think a person who has a subdued settled despair in his mind would all of a sudden feel a kind of bounding… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
I've never seen anything like that before. Usually when home teams break up no-hit bids, the crowd cheers the hit and cheers… — Corey Koskie Copy Share Image
Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb. — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
Your smile is a very powerful weapon, use it wisely .You can make someone really happy or unhappy with that little movement… — Anonymous 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
Blessed be those souls who are glad! They are a salve for sorrow and fatigue. A sun in days of darkness, a… — Candace Wheeler Copy Share Image
I love you because even on my worst days, when I just want to throw in life's towel and give up on… — Fad Ibra Copy Share Image
A girl's laughter is much more cheerful than a boy's. But a boy's cry is much more meaningful than a girl's. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
O God, animate us to cheerfulness! May we have a joyful sense of our blessings, learn to look on the bright circumstances… — 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
Joyful let the soul be in the present, let it disdain to trouble about what is beyond and temper bitterness with a… — Horace Copy Share Image
It is the surgeon’s duty to tranquillize the temper, to beget cheerfulness, and to impart confidence of recovery. — Astley Cooper Copy Share Image
Economy is the parent of integrity, of liberty, and of ease, and the beauteous sister of temperance, of cheerfulness and health. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
And when your back stops aching and your hands begin to harden, You will find yourself a partner in the Glory of… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
“Tara hadn't managed to pick his pockets, and Chloe had only halfway seduced him, but Lucy's open adoration and obvious cheerfulness weren't… — Jennifer Lynn Barnes Copy Share Image
Keep out of the Sight of Feasts and Banquets as much as may be; for 'tis more difficult to refrain good Cheer,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Above all things endeavor to breed them up the love of virtue, and that holy plain way of it which we have… — William Penn Copy Share Image