CHEERFULNESS

Related Subjects: Contentment, Gayety, Good Humor, Happiness, Joy, Optimism, Smile, Warmth

1. A cheerful temper joined with innocence will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful, and wit good-natured.—ADDISON, The Tatler
   

2. Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity.—ADDISON
   

3. To be free-minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meals, and of sleep, and of exercise, is one of the best precepts of long-lasting.BACON
   

4. If my heart were not light, I would die.—JOANNA BAILLIE
   

5. The cheerful live longest in years and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the offshoot of goodness.—C. N. BOVEE
   

6. Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.—CARLYLE
   

7. 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 persevere in it longer, than the sad or sullen.—CARLYLE

8. So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more of it remains.—EMERSON, Conduct of Life
   

9. That which befits us is cheerfulness and courage.—EMERSON, Essays
   

10. To make knowledge valuable, you must have the cheerfulness of wisdom. Goodness smiles to the last.—EMERSON, Essays
    

11. An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.—THOMAS FULLER
    

12. The true source of cheerfulness is benevolence. The soul that perpetually overflows with kindness and sympathy will always be cheerful.—PARKE GODWIN
    

13. Cheerful at morn he wakes from short repose,
    Breasts the keen air, and carols as he goes.—GOLDSMITH, The Traveller
    

14. We ought to feel a deep cheerfulness, as I may say, that a happy Providence kept it from being any worse.—THOMAS HARDY, Far From the Madding Crowd
    

15. Learn the sweet magic of a cheerful face;
    Not always smiling, but at least serene.—O. W. HOLMES, The Morning Visit
    

16. The mind that is cheerful at present will have no solicitude for the future, and will meet the bitter occurrences of life with a smile.—HORACE
    

17. 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.—DAVID HUME
    

18. Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where jokes are rather small and the laughter abundant.—WASHINGTON IRVING
    

19. Every one must have felt that a cheerful friend is like a sunny day, which sheds its brightness on all around; and most of us can, as we choose, make of this world either a palace or a prison.—SIR JOHN LUBBOCK
    

20. Cheerful looks make every dish a feast; and it is that which crowns a
    welcome.—MASSINGER
    

21. The most manifest sign of wis­dom is a continual cheerfulness.—MONTAIGNE, Essays

22. Burdens become light when cheerfully borne.—OVID
    

23. The best of healers is good cheer.—PINDAR, Nemean Ode
    

24. A man of gladness seldom falls into madness.—Proverb
    

25. A blithe heart makes a blooming visage.—Proverb
    

26. 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.—RUSKIN
    

27. Lay aside life-harming heaviness And entertain a cheerful disposition.—SHAKESPEARE, Richard II

28. Every time a man smiles, and much more when he laughs, it adds something to his fragment of life.—STERNE
    

29. Cheerfulness in most cheerful people, is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline.—E. P. WHIPPLE, Success and Its Conditions