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  • A Morning Prayer The day returns and brings us the petty round of irritating concerns and duties. Help us to play the man; help us to perform them with laughter and kind faces, let cheerfulness abound with industry. Give us to go blithely on our business all this day. Bring us to our resting beds weary and content and undishonored and grant us in the end the gift of sleep.

    Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson, William Ernest Henley (1925). “The works of Robert Louis Stevenson”
  • Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

    'The Spectator' no. 381, 17 May 1712
  • The highest wisdom and the highest genius have been invariably accompanied with cheerfulness. We have sufficient proofs on record that Shakespeare and Socrates were the most festive companions.

    Genius   Records   Proof  
    Thomas Love Peacock (1818). “Nightmare Abbey”, p.164
  • All that in this delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss.

    Edmund Spenser, John Hughes (1750). “The Works: In Sex Volumes. With A Glossary Explaining the Old and Obscure Words. To which is Prefix'd the Life of the Author, and an Essay on Allegorical Poetry”, p.270
  • 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.

    Life   Happiness   Strong  
    John Ruskin (1868). “pt. V: Of mountain beauty”, p.328
  • There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy.

  • Good humor, like the jaundice, makes every one of its own complexion.

  • If there is no element of asceticism in our lives, if we give free rein to the desires of the flesh (taking care of course to keep within the limits of what seems permissible to the world), we shall find it hard to train for the service of Christ. When the flesh is satisfied it is hard to pray with cheerfulness or to devote oneself to a life of service which calls for much self-renunciation.

    Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.115, SCM Press
  • Exercise and application produce order in our affairs, health of body, cheerfulness of mind, and these make us precious to our friends

    Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1786-1787”, p.265, Cosimo, Inc.
  • ...for though she was ordinary, she possessed health, wit, courage, charm, and cheerfulness. But because she was not beautiful, no one ever seemed to notice these other qualities, which is so often the way of the world.

  • Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.

    Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Shirley: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.50, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • Let's be cheerful! We have no more right to steal the brightness out of the day for our own family than we have to steal the purse of a stranger.

    Laura Ingalls Wilder, Stephen W. Hines (2008). “Laura Ingalls Wilder, farm journalist: writings from the Ozarks”, University of Missouri
  • Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.

    Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator”, p.367
  • If you have to have it, it's ego. If you have to not have it, it's ego. Hold life lightly and it will deliver what you need and release what you don't.

  • She was stronger alone; and her own good sense so well supported her, that her firmness was as unshaken, her appearance of cheerfulness as invariable, as, with regrets so poignant and so fresh, it was possible for them to be.

    Jane Austen (1833). “Sense and Sensibility: A Novel”, p.119
  • The happiness of married life depends upon making small sacrifices with readiness and cheerfulness.

  • There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing. Everybody now-a-days is a father, there is father Mussolini and father Hitler and father Roosevelt and father Stalin and father Trotsky and father Blum and father Franco is just commencing now and there are ever so many more ready to be one. Fathers are depressing. England is the only country now that has not got one and so they are more cheerful there than anywhere. It is a long time now that they have not had any fathering and so their cheerfulness is increasing.

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

  • Happiness comes to those who are moving toward something they want very much to happen. And it almost always involves making someone else happy.

    Happiness   Moving   Want  
  • The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

    Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.116, Chartwell
  • Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.

    William Feather (1949). “The Business of Life”
  • To live greatly, we must develop the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and triumph with humility. You ask, 'How might we achieve these goals?' I answer, 'By getting a true perspective of who we really are!' We are sons and daughters of a living God in whose image we have been created. Think of that truth: 'Created in the image of God!' We cannot sincerely hold this conviction without experiencing a profound new sense of strength and power, even the strength to live the commandments of God, the power to resist the temptations of Satan.

  • It is a great disgrace to religion, to imagine that it is an enemy to mirth and cheerfulness, and a severe exacter of pensive looks and solemn faces.

    Enemy   Religion   Looks  
  • The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility.

  • The sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, to look round cheerfully, and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there. If such conduct does not make you soon feel cheerful, nothing else on that occasion can.

    "Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals".
  • Cheerfulness is a policy; happiness is a talent.

  • Foolish talking and jesting are not the ways in which Christian cheerfulness should express itself, but rather "giving of thanks" (Eph. 5:4). Religion is the source of joy and gladness, but its joy is expressed in a religious way, in thanksgiving and praise.

  • People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.

    Happiness   Work   People  
    Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.2084, Delphi Classics
  • The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.

    Love   Positive   Summer  
    Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Lectures to young men, on various important subjects”, p.296
  • There is no Christian duty that is not to be seasoned and set off with cheerishness, which in a thousand outward and intermitting crosses may yet be done well, as in this vale of tears.

    Christian   Tears   Done  
    John Milton (1853). “The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Biographical Introduction”, p.208
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