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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body. -- Joseph Addison
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
Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks. -- Charles Dickens
Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline. -- Edwin Percy Whipple
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious. -- William Feather
The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness. -- Michel de Montaigne
The Danish glee: the national version of cheerfulness. -- Georg Brandes
An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with. -- Thomas Fuller
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. -- Aristotle
Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb. -- Benjamin Rush
The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility. -- Thomas S. Monson
With this sweet hope of ultimate acceptance with God, I have always enjoyed much cheerfulness before men; but I have at the same time laboured incessantly to cultivate the deepest humiliation before God. -- Charles Simeon
Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen. -- Thomas Carlyle
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. -- Joseph Addison
As might be supposed, my parents were quite poor, but we somehow never seemed to lack anything we needed, and I never saw a trace of discontent or a failure in cheerfulness over their lot in life, as indeed over anything. -- Albert J. Nock
While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful. -- H. G. Wells
Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness -- Christian Nevell Bovee
Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers. -- Jennifer E. Smith
Cheerfulness can change misfortune into love and friends. -- Louisa May Alcott
Cheerfulness has a directly beneficial influence upon health. -- Grenville Kleiser
If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully. -- Thomas Fuller
Cheerfulness is a policy; happiness is a talent. -- Mason Cooley
Cheerfulness is the atmosphere in which all things thrive -- Jean Paul Richter
Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
Cheerfulness prepares a glorious mind for all the noblest acts. -- Elizabeth Ann Seton
[Grateful] Cheerfulness is health; its opposite, [ungrateful] melancholy, is disease. -- Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Cheerfulness, sir, is the principle ingredient in the composition of health. -- Arthur Murphy
Repose and cheerfulness is the badge of the gentleman; repose in energy. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Cheerfulness in most cheerful people, is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline -- Edwin P. Whipple
Cheerfulness, up to and including delusion and false hope, has a recognized place in medicine. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
Dreaming of getting you I loosed everything Cheerfulness of smile And all the dreams of life -- Hasil Paudyal
Of cheerfulness, or a good temper - the more it is spent, the more of it remains. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
Cheerfulness is a very great help in fostering the virtue of charity. Cheerfulness itself is a virtue -- Lawrence G. Lovasik
Cheerfulness is a very great help in fostering the virtue of charity. Cheerfulness itself is a virtue. -- Lawrence G. Lovasik
Cheerfulness is also an excellent wearing quality. It has been called the bright weather of the heart. -- Samuel Smiles
Cheerfulness is like money well expended in charity; the more we dispense of it, the greater our possession. -- Victor Hugo
To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity -- Joseph Addison
The path to cheerfulness is to sit cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there. -- William James
I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall do till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness. -- Charles Dickens
Cheerfulness is full of significance: it suggests good health, a clear conscience, and a soul at peace with all human nature. -- Charles Kingsley
It takes a Mother's Patience, to bring a child up right, And her Courage and her Cheerfulness to make a dark day bright. -- Helen Steiner Rice
Cheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vitae of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a sun. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable. -- Joseph Addison
Cheerfulness is the daughter of employment; and I have known a man come home in high spirits from a funeral, merely because he has had the management of it. -- William Cornelius Van Horne
Cheerfulness means a contented spirit, a pure heart, a kind and loving disposition; it means humility and ~ charity, a generous appreciation of others, and a modest opinion of self. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
Cheerfulness is among the most laudable virtues. It gains you the good will and friendship of others. It blesses those who practice it and those upon whom it is bestowed. -- B. C. Forbes
Cheerfulness is a debt we owe to society, in the paying of which we receive a generous discount. We can not open our hearts to give out cheer without more cheer rushing in to take its place. -- Alice Hegan Rice
Cheerfulness consists in not regarding things as our own, but as entrusted to us by God for the benefit of our fellow-servants. It consists in scattering them abroad generously with joy and magnanimity, not reluctantly or under compulsion. -- Symeon the New Theologian
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
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
Cheerfulness is a sign of a generous and mortified person who forgetting all things, even herself, tries to please her God in all she does for souls. Cheerfulness is often a cloak which hides a life of sacrifice and a continual union with God. -- Mother Teresa
Let us be of cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come -- Amy Lowell
I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness -- Charles Dickens
You can't reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height. -- Stephen Fry
The required cheerfulness that characterizes many of our churches produces a suffocating environment of pat, religious answers to the painful, complex questions that riddle the lives of hurting people. -- Tullian Tchividjian
Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know. -- Charles Kingsley
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 -- Joseph Addison
Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God. -- Adam Smith
Let us instance one respect in which American life has recently undergone a great change. We allude to its increased devotion to pleasure, to happiness, to dancing, to sport... to the delights of the country, to laughter, and to all forms of cheerfulness. -- Frank Crowninshield
While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful -- H. G. Wells
In my own life I know that my state of cheerfulness is a reliable gauge of my level of spiritual enlightenment at that moment. The more cheerful, happy, contented, and satisfied I am feeling, the more aware I am of my deep connection to Spirit. -- Wayne Dyer
There is a collective as well as an individual humor inclining peoples to sadness or cheerfulness, making them see things in bright or somber lights. In fact, only society can pass a collective opinion on the value of human life; for this the individual is incompetent. -- Emile Durkheim
When I get on stage, my first goal is not to show my expertise, but on the contrary, to give a bit of happiness, of joy, of cheerfulness. I am firmly convinced that in order to sing well, you must love your neighbor and be passionate about life. -- Andrea Bocelli
I think that is a better thing than thanksgiving: thanks-living. How is this to be done? By a general cheerfulness of manner, by an obedience to the command of Him by whose mercy we live, by a perpetual, constant delighting of ourselves in the Lord, and by a submission of our desires to His will. -- Charles Spurgeon
Joy is immeasurable cheerfulness. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Power dwells with cheerfulness. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Health and cheerfulness make beauty -- Miguel de Cervantes
Let cheerfulness on happy fortune wait. -- John Dryden
[Gratitude is] the cheerfulness of wisdom. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other. -- Joseph Addison
Nothing is more graceful than habitual cheerfulness. -- Adam Smith
I think cheerfulness is a fortune in itself. -- George Eliot
Nothing is more beautiful than cheerfulness in an old face. -- Jean Paul
Exactness in little things is a wonderful source of cheerfulness. -- Frederick William Faber
To make knowledge valuable, you must have the cheerfulness of wisdom. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Courage, cheerfulness, and a desire to work depends mostly on good nutrition. -- Jacob Moleschott
A healthy and wholesome cheerfulness is not necessarily impossible to any occupation. -- Mark Twain
Daring enthusiasm And abiding cheerfulness Can accomplish everything on earth Without fail. -- Sri Chinmoy
The nonappearance of cheerfulness in the lives of good people is finite. -- Darmie Orem
Song brings of itself a cheerfulness that wakes the heart of joy. -- Euripides
Laughing cheerfulness throws the light of day on all the paths of life. -- Jean Paul
Remain cheerful, For nothing destructive can pierce through The solid wall of cheerfulness. -- Sri Chinmoy
Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, altogether past calculation its powers of endurance. -- Thomas Carlyle
Nurses - nurses, you'm all the same. Full of cheerfulness over other people's troubles. -- Agatha Christie
The happiness of married life depends upon making small sacrifices with readiness and cheerfulness. -- John Selden
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
If there is a virtue in the world at which we should always aim, it is cheerfulness. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, - an open and noble temper. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To preserve our cheerfulness amid sicknesses and troubles, is a sign of a right and good spirit. -- Philip Neri
She represents something about the corporate world that repel me, some deep coldness masked as relentless cheerfulness. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
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A heart full of courage and cheerfulness needs a little danger from time to time, or the world gets unbearable. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Nature intended you to be the fountain-spring of cheerfulness and social life, and not the mountain of despair and melancholy. -- Arthur Helps
The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendor cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate. -- Samuel Johnson
Economy is the parent of integrity, of liberty, and of ease, and the beauteous sister of temperance, of cheerfulness and health. -- Samuel Johnson
Prayer is the place of refuge for every worry, a foundation for cheerfulness, a source of constant happiness, a protection against sadness. -- Saint John Chrysostom
The most certain sign of wisdom is continual cheerfulness; her state is like the things above the moon, always clear and serene. -- Michel de Montaigne
Exercise and application produce order in our affairs, health of body, cheerfulness of mind, and these make us precious to our friends -- Thomas Jefferson
The very first discovery of beauty strikes the mind with an inward joy, and spreads a cheerfulness and delight through all its faculties. -- Joseph Addison
You've achieved cheerfulness the day you realize that no matter what's happening around you, being anything other than cheerful will not make it better. -- Tony Robbins
You know I'm old in some ways-in others-well, I'm just a little girl. I like sunshine and pretty things and cheerfulness-and I dread responsibility. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Nobody owns anything but everyone is rich - for what greater wealth can there be than cheerfulness, peace of mind, and freedom from anxiety? -- Thomas More
There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind. -- Mary Wortley Montagu
We have a mission to others--to add to their cheer. This we cannot do unless we have first learned the lesson of cheerfulness ourselves. -- J.R. Miller
There is nothing more beautiful than cheerfulness in an old face, and among country people it is always a sign of a well-regulated life. -- Charles Francis Richter
The mind of a wise man is the safest custody of secrets; cheerfulness is the key to friendship; patience and forbearance will conceal many defects. -- Bill Vaughan
Orange strengthens your emotional body, encouraging a general feeling of joy, well-being, and cheerfulness. Orange vibration foods are: oranges, tangerines, apricots, mangoes, peaches and carrots. -- Tae Yun Kim
Success is ninety-nine percent mental attitude. It calls for love, joy, optimism, confidence, serenity, poise, faith, courage, cheerfulness, imagination, initiative, tolerance, honesty, humility, patience, and enthusiasm. -- Wilferd Peterson
Since Time is not a person we can overtake when he is gone, let us honor him with mirth and cheerfulness of heart while he is passing. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Fake feeling good.... You're going to have to learn to fake cheerfulness. Believe it or not, eventually that effort will pay off: you'll actually start feeling happier. -- Jean Bach
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. -- Thomas Love Peacock
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. -- Walter Scott
What time can be more beautiful when the one in which the finest virtues, innocent cheerfulness and indefinable longing for love constitute the sole motives of your life. -- Leo Tolstoy
Have your fun, my dear; but if you must earn your bread, try to make it sweet with cheerfulness, not bitter with the daily regret that it isn't cake. -- Louisa May Alcott
I think my cheerfulness keeps my writing from sinking into the depths of melancholy, while the darker side keeps in check any literary silliness I might be inclined toward. -- David Starkey
I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as a habit of mind. Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent. -- Joseph Addison
Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of the gentleman - repose in energy. The Greek battle pieces are calm; the heroes, in whatever violent actions engaged, retain a serene aspect. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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