Cheerfulness Quote by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Download Open image “What can the Creator see with greater pleasure than a happy creature?” — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cheerfulness Creator Creatures Greater Happiness Pleasure
Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The lower animals, like man, manifestly feel pleasure and pain, happiness and misery. Happiness is never better exhibited than by young animals, such as… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The fact of our deriving constant pleasure from whatever is a type or semblance of divine attributes, and from nothing but that which is… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The happiness which God designs for His higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to Him and to each other in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The animal has its happiness in the senses, the human beings in their intellect, and the gods in spiritual contemplation. It is only to… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
Happiness is not the same as pleasure. Pleasure is an immediate experience, very transient in nature, that's enjoyable, and if we experience a great… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it. — Margaret Drabble Copy Share Image
“We create most of our suffering, so it should be logical that we also have the ability to create more joy. It simply depends… — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
They make glorious shipwreck who are lost in seeking worlds. — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Copy Share Image
A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer. — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Copy Share Image
The superstition in which we were brought up never loses its power over us, even after we understand it. — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Copy Share Image
He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose. — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Copy Share Image
Well was it said by a man of sagacity that dancing was a sort of privileged and reputable folly, and that the best way… — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Copy Share Image
We moderns do not believe in demigods, but our smallest hero we expect to feel and act as a demigod. — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Copy Share Image
Resist as much as thou wilt; heaven's ways are heaven's ways. — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Copy Share Image
Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline. — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
When you drop your unnecessary things, you finally can swoop and fly in vast space. It is so blue, so bright, and so nice,… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man-yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Even the smallest landscape can offer pride of ownership not only to its inhabitants but to its neighbors. The world delights in a garden....… — Julie Moir Messervy Copy Share Image
Cheerfulness means a contented spirit, a pure heart, a kind and loving disposition; it means humility and ~ charity, a generous appreciation of others,… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
I have observed that in comedies the best actor plays the droll, while some scrub rogue is made the fine gentleman or hero. Thus… — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
I believe that God will help us to forget things, the memory of which would do us harm, or rather that He will enable… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Actions seems to follow feeling, but really actions and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control… — William James Copy Share Image
Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, - an open and noble temper. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The people that humanity needs most are those who manage to be cheerful even on a frightening dark street, because high morale is the… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
