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QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON CHEERFULNESS
Developing a cheerful disposition can permit an atmosphere wherein one's spirit can be nurtured and encouraged to blossom and bear fruit. Being pessimistic and negative about our experiences will not enhance the quality of our lives. A determination to be of good cheer can help us and those around us to enjoy life more fully.
Barbara W. Winder Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
Joseph Addison (1672-1719, British essayist, poet, statesman)
To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the best precepts of long lasting.
Francis Bacon (1561-1626, British philosopher, essayist, statesman)
The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
John Christian Bovee (1820-1904, American author, lawyer)
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
Sir John Bowring (1792-1872, British statesman, linguist)
People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.
Samuel Butler (1612-1680, British poet, satirist)
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 (1795-1881, Scottish philosopher, author)
Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers and are famous preservers of youthful looks.
Charles Dickens (1812-1870, British novelist)
I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.
Charles Dickens (1812-1870, British novelist)
An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.
Thomas Fuller (1608-1661, British clergyman, author)
So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)
A cheerful face is nearly as good for an invalid as healthy weather.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790, American scientist, publisher, diplomat)
The true source of cheerfulness is benevolence. The soul that perpetually overflows with kindness and sympathy will always be cheerful.
Parke Godwin
The path to cheerfulness is to sit cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there.
William James (1842-1910, American psychologist, professor, author)
The path to cheerfulness is to sit cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there.
William James (1842-1910, American psychologist, professor, author)
Cheer up! The worst is yet to come!
Philander Johnson
In making up the character of God, the old theologians failed to mention that He is of infinite cheerfulness. The omission has caused the world much tribulation.
Michael Monahan
The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne (1533-1592, French philosopher, essayist)
The most manifest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness; her state is like that in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene.
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne (1533-1592, French philosopher, essayist)
Cheerfulness, sir, is the principle ingredient in the composition of health.
Arthur Murphy
I went out to Charing Cross to see Major General Harrison hanged, drawn, and quartered; which was done there, he looking as cheerful as any man could in that condition.
Samuel Pepys (1633-1703, British diarist)
The sun shines on those who are standing before it shines on the people kneeling under them.
African Proverb (Sayings of African origin)
Better the cottage where one is merry than the palace where one weeps.
Chinese Proverb (Sayings of Chinese origin)
Cheerfulness is as natural to the heart of 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, British critic, social theorist)
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, British critic, social theorist)
It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.
St. Francis of Assisi (1181-1226, Italian preacher, founder of The Franciscan Orde)
Gaiety alone, as it were, is the hard cash of happiness; everything else is just a promissory note.
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860, German philosopher)
The voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, and act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there. To feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end, and courage will very likely replace fear. If we act as if from some better feeling, the bad feeling soon folds its tent like an Arab and silently steals away
William Shakespeare (1564-1616, British poet, playwright, actor)
Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without regret or reservation.
W. H. Sheldon
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-, American opera singer)
O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.
St. Augustine (354-430, Numidian-born bishop of Hippo, theologian)
I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.
Margaret Thatcher (1925-, British Prime Minister (1979-90))
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Mark Twain (1835-1910, American humorist, writer)
Delicate humor is the crowning virtue of the saints.
Evelyn Underhill
A man of gladness seldom falls into madness.
Author Unknown
Cheerfulness greases the axles of the world.
Author Unknown
Cheerfulness removes the rust from the mind, lubricates our inward machinery, and enables us to do our work with fewer creaks and ;groans. If people were universally cheerful, probably there wouldn't be half the quarreling or a tenth part of the wickedness
Author Unknown
There is no danger of developing eyestrain from looking on the bright side of things.
Author Unknown
Cheerfulness in most cheerful people, is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline.
Edwin P. Whipple (1819-1886, American essayist)
The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1855-1919, American poet, journalist)
Developing a cheerful disposition can permit an atmosphere wherein one's spirit can be nurtured and encouraged to blossom and bear fruit. Being pessimistic and negative about our experiences will not enhance the quality of our lives. A determination to be of good cheer can help us and those around us to enjoy life more fully.
Barbara W. Winder
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