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Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline.

— Edwin Percy Whipple

Love is a very contradiction of all the elements of our ordinary nature -- it makes the proud man meek -- the cheerful, sad…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

I was broken in body, soul, and spirit. My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed, the cheerful spark…

— Frederick Douglass

Children ask better questions than adults. "May I have a cookie?" "Why is the sky blue?" and "What does a cow say?" are far…

— Fran Lebowitz

When I was about 17, I had a row with my mother and left home for six months, renting a flat and working as…

— Anne Robinson

It's sad if people think that's (homemaking) a dull existance, [but] you can't just buy an apartment and furnish it and walk away. It's…

— Audrey Hepburn

Well, we can ride together for a while longer. The highway south is farther along this way. I'll be glad of some cheerful company."…

— John Flanagan

To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it…

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Bright reds - scarlet, pillar-box red, crimson or cherry - are very cheerful and youthful. There is certainly a red for everyone.

— Christian Dior

By experience; by a sense of human frailty; by a perception of "the soul of goodness in things evil;" by a cheerful trust in…

— Frederick William Robertson

I am still determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may be.

— Martha Washington

Pete Seeger is a modest, unassuming, cheerful, and kind-natured man. He's a good folk singer, if you can stand folk singing. And he's such…

— P. J. O'Rourke

The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without…

— Jonathan Swift

By the time they were pulling into the parking lot of the A&P, the mood was fading, the moment gone. Amy could feel it…

— Elizabeth Strout

To bear adversity with meek submission to the will of God; to endure chastisement with all long-suffering and joyfulness; to appear cheerful amid surrounding…

— John Angell James