An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.
Cheerful Quotes
The true source of cheerfulness is benevolence.
Cheerfulness is health; its opposite, melancholy, is disease.
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.
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!
