"[Gratitude is] the cheerfulness of wisdom." — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
• Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body. — Joseph Addison
• What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's… — Joseph Addison
• Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness… — Joseph Addison
• The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy. — Henry Ward Beecher
• When I get on stage, my first goal is not to show my expertise, but on the contrary, to give… — Andrea Bocelli
• Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on… — Charlotte Bronte
• Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the… — Thomas Carlyle
• Cheerfulness has a directly beneficial influence upon health. — Grenville Kleiser
• Among the numerous luxuries of the table...coffee may be considered as one of the most valuable. It excites cheerfulness without… — Benjamin Franklin
• Prayer is the place of refuge for every worry, a foundation for cheerfulness, a source of constant happiness, a protection… — Saint John Chrysostom
• The most certain sign of wisdom is continual cheerfulness; her state is like the things above the moon, always clear… — Michel de Montaigne

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