Cheerful Quotes

379 Cheerful quotes by 281 unique authors

With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy. — Max Ehrmann
And all this day an unaccustomed spirit lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts. — William Shakespeare
The person who gives with a smile is the best giver because God loves a cheerful giver. — Mother Teresa
What is more cheerful, now, in the fall of the year, than an open-wood-fire? Do you hear those little chirps and twitters coming out of… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
To be cheerful when others are in despair, to keep the faith when others falter, to be true even when we feel forsaken—all of these… — Neal A. Maxwell
My own idea, for what it is worth, is that all sadness which is not either arising from the repentance of a concrete sin and… — C.S. Lewis
The devil, the originator of sorrowful anxieties and restless troubles, flees before the sound of music almost as much as before the Word of God....Music… — Martin Luther
Having a yacht is a reason for being more cheerful than most. — Kurt Vonnegut
The city was blacked out because bombers might come, so Billy didn't get to see Dresden do one of the most cheerful things a city… — Kurt Vonnegut
...[W]e should be mucking about all the time, because mucking about is enjoying life for its own sake, now, and not in preparation for an… — Tom Hodgkinson
He meant the Kingdom was over, the Kingdom of Heaven, it was all finished. We shouldn't live as if it mattered more than this life… — Philip Pullman
It is cheerful to God when you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
As it somehow always manages before the winter solstice, but never after, the early darkness was cheerful and promising, even for those who had nothing. — Mark Helprin
The banjo is such a happy instrument--you can't play a sad song on the banjo - it always comes out so cheerful. — Steve Martin
Why do we people in churches seem like cheerful, brainless tourists on a packaged tour of the Absolute? — Annie Dillard
They all think any minute I'm going to commit suicide. What a joke. The truth of course is the exact opposite: suicide is the only… — Walker Percy
The most spiritual men, as the strongest, find their happiness where others would find their destruction: in the labyrinth, in hardness against themselves and others,… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The Revolutionary Hill Estates had not been designed to accommodate a tragedy. Even at night, as if on purpose, the development held no looming shadows… — Richard Yates
The destructive character knows only one watchword: make room; only one activity: clearing away ... The destructive character is young and cheerful. For destroying rejuvenates… — Walter Benjamin
She was bedridden falling a fall which broke her hip. X-rays showed that she had cancer of the colon which had already spreed. To my… — Adeline Yen Mah
We all stood and gathered our backpacks and I looked at the floor around my chair to make sure I hadn’t dropped anything. I was… — Curtis Sittenfeld
When machines fail, when technology fails, when the conventional religion fails, people have got to have something. Even a zombin lurching through the night can… — Stephen King
That's a nice song,' said young Sam, and Vimes remembered that he was hearing it for the first time. It's an old soldiers' song,' he… — Terry Pratchett
Ghastly," continued Marvin, "it all is. Absolutely ghastly. Just don't even talk about it. Look at this door," he said, stepping through it. The irony… — Douglas Adams
The old man slowly raised himself from the piano stool, fixed those cheerful blue eyes piercingly and at the same time with unimaginable friendliness upon… — Hermann Hesse

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