Philosophy Quote by Voltaire

This has taught me that being pleasant is always so much more productive, for I know well the rewards for being good-natured.

— Marie Windsor

Cheerfulness is full of significance: it suggests good health, a clear conscience, and a soul at peace with all human nature.

— Charles Kingsley

Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

The pleasant life: a life that successfully pursues the positive emotions about the present, past, and future.

— Martin Seligman

Garner up pleasant thoughts in your mind, for pleasant thoughts make pleasant lives.

— John Wilkins

Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness

— Christian Nevell Bovee

To be a pleasant person, you would at least need to see the point of being a pleasant person, or have it explained to…

— Michael Leunig

Politeness is good nature regulated by good sense.

— Sydney Smith

It is pleasant to be virtuous and good, because that is to excel many others; it is pleasant to grow better, because that is…

— John Tillotson

The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts, and the great art of life is to have as many of them as possible.

— Michel de Montaigne

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

— Joseph Addison

Please, trust me, I most definitely can be cheerful. I can be amiable. Agreeable. Affable. And that's only the A's. Just don't ask me…

— Markus Zusak