Cheerfulness Quote by William James

“The path to cheerfulness is to sit cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there.”

William James

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'Facts' are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.

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We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

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It is your friends who make your world.

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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

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Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, - an open and noble temper.

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The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.

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