Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, altogether past calculation its powers of endurance. Efforts, to be permanently useful, must be uniformly joyous,—a spirit all sunshine, graceful from very gladness, beautiful because bright.
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish Historian, Essayist
Cheerfulness greases the axles of the world.
—Unknown
A cheerful temper joined with innocence will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful and wit good-natured. It will lighten sickness, poverty and affliction, convert ignorance into an amiable simplicity, and render deformity itself agreeable.
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719) English Essayist, Poet, Playwright, Politician
If my heart were not light, I would die.
—Joanna Baillie (1762–1851) Scottish Playwright, Poet
Cheerfulness, in most cheerful people, is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline.
—Edwin Percy Whipple (1819–86) American Literary Critic
To watch the corn grow, or the blossoms set; to draw hard breath over the plough or spade; to read, to think, to love, to pray, are the things that make men happy.
—John Ruskin (1819–1900) English Writer, Art Critic
I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.
—Charles Dickens (1812–70) English Novelist
Continual cheerfulness is a sign of wisdom.
—Irish Proverb
A light heart lives long.
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright
God is glorified, not by our groans but by our thanksgivings; and all good thought and good action claim a natural alliance with good cheer.
—Edwin Percy Whipple (1819–86) American Literary Critic
The mind that is cheerful at present will have no solicitude for the future, and will meet the bitter occurrences of life with a smile.
—Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) (65–8 BCE) Roman Poet
Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719) English Essayist, Poet, Playwright, Politician
Be cheerful: do not brood over fond hopes unrealized until a chain is fastened on each thought and wound around the heart. Nature intended you to be the fountain-spring of cheerfulness and social life, and not the monument of despair and melancholy.
—Arthur Helps (1813–75) British Essayist, Historian
Cheerful company shortens the journey.
—German Proverb
Better the cottage where one is merry than the palace where one weeps.
—Chinese Proverb
Stay away from the ones you love too much. Those are the ones who will kill you.
—Donna Tartt (b.1963) American Novelist
It is not fitting, when one is in God’s service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.
—Francis of Assisi (1181-1226) Italian Monk, Founder of the Franciscan Order
That load becomes light which is cheerfully borne.
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) (c.43 BCE–c.18 CE) Roman Poet
Burdens become light when cheerfully borne.
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) (c.43 BCE–c.18 CE) Roman Poet
The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.
—Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850–1919) American Poet, Journalist
To be free-minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meals, and of sleep, and of exercise, is one of the best precepts of long-lasting.
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English Philosopher
Cheer up, the worst is yet to come.
—Philander Chase Johnson (1866–1939) American Humorist, Journalist
Cheerfulness is health; its opposite, melancholy, is disease.
—Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1796–1865) Canadian Author, Humorist, Jurist
Cheerfulness is as natural to the heart of a man in strong health, as color to his cheek; and wherever there is habitual gloom, there must be either bad air, unwholesome food, improperly severe labor, or erring habits of life.
—John Ruskin (1819–1900) English Writer, Art Critic
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
—Mark Twain (1835–1910) American Humorist
To make knowledge valuable, you must have the cheerfulness of wisdom. Goodness smiles to the last.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher
The true source of cheerfulness is benevolence.—The soul that perpetually overflows with kindness and sympathy will always be cheerful.
—Parke Godwin (1929–2013) American Novelist, Fantasy Creator
I’m not happy, I’m cheerful. There’s a difference. A happy woman has no cares at all. A cheerful woman has cares but has learned how to deal with them.
—Beverly Sills (1929–2007) American Singer, Musician
Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and the laughter abundant.
—Washington Irving (1783–1859) American Essayist, Biographer, Historian
Health and cheerfulness make beauty; finery and cosmetics cost money and lie.
—Spanish Proverb
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