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 mountain of despair and melancholy.
Cheerful Quotes
I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The former is an act, the latter a habit of the mind. Mirth is short and transient; cheerfulness, fixed and permanent. 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 […]
Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.
Health and cheerfulness mutually beget each other.
To be happy, the temperament must be cheerful and gay, not gloomy and melancholy. A propensity to hope and joy, is real riches; one to fear and sorrow, is real poverty.
Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
Cheer up! The worst is yet to come!
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.
The habit of looking on the best side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year.
There is no greater every-day virtue than cheerfulness. This quality in man among men is like sunshine to the day, or gentle renewing moisture to parched herbs. The light of a cheerful face diffuses itself, and communicates the happy spirit that inspires it. The sourest temper must sweeten in the atmosphere of continuous good humor.
