Quotes about Cheerful

Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline. Votes: 5

Cheerful givers do not count the cost of what they give. Votes: 4

A Cheerful friend is like a sunny day, which sheds its brightness on all around. Votes: 4

O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams. Votes: 4

A happy woman is one who has no cares at all; a cheerful woman is one who has cares but doesn't let them get her down. Votes: 4

There is one thing one has to have either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge.... Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

Joy is prayer; joy is strength, joy is love. God loves a cheerful giver. The best way we can show our gratitude to God and the people is to accept everything with joy. Votes: 4

Blue is the male principle, stern and spiritual. Yellow the female principle, gentle, cheerful and sensual. Red is matter, brutal and heavy and always the colour which must be fought and vanquished by the other two. Votes: 4

I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition. Votes: 4

No, I love the idea that someone changes. As an actor it's always the thing that you look for. He is someone who starts off bright, cheerful and confident and then has everything taken away from him. It's a wonderful journey to take. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

Good words are worth much, and cost little. Votes: 3

Nothing is more cheerful than talking about our friends' shortcomings. Votes: 3

The first sign of your becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful Votes: 3

Cheerfulness in most cheerful people, is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline Votes: 3

Cheerful looks make every dish a feast, and it is that which crowns a welcome. Votes: 3

Cheerful poor is rich with a smile, sulky rich is poor with a bullion of gold. Votes: 3

Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks. Votes: 3

The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness. Votes: 3

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old. Votes: 3

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age. Votes: 3

He who loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, or an effectual comforter. Votes: 3

Statistically speaking, the Cheerful Early Riser is rejected more completely than a member of any other subculture, save those with boot odor. Votes: 3

Cheerful givers do not count the cost of what they give. Their hearts are set on pleasing and cheering the person to whom the gift is given. Votes: 3

The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man are fixed upon the same creation; but very different are the aspects which it bears to them. Votes: 3

As it's your 50th birthday The very best of cheers to you Truthfully, I'm just being selfish Coz now I am so cheerful, too Happy, Cheerful Birthday Votes: 3

Money is time. With money I buy for cheerful use the hours which otherwise would not in any sense be mine; nay, which would make me their miserable bondsman. Votes: 3

The sound of the mandolin is a very curious sound because it's cheerful and melancholy at the same time, and I think it comes from that shadow string, the double strings. Votes: 3

The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number - a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him. Votes: 3

Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful. Votes: 3

Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old. Votes: 3

You cannot settle a new country without suffering, exposure, and danger. Cheerful endurance of hardships and contempt of surroundings become a virtue in a pioneer. Comfort is a comparatively new thing in the United States. Votes: 3

The Negro people of America... have cut our forests, tilled our fields, built our railroads, fought our battles, and in all of their trials they have manifested a simple faith, a grateful heart, a cheerful spirit, and an undivided loyalty . Votes: 3

Live in rooms full of light. Avoid heavy food. Be moderate in the drinking of wine. Take massage, baths, exercise, and gymnastics. Fight insomnia with gentle rocking or the sound of running water. Change surroundings and take long journeys. Strictly avoid frightening ideas. Indulge in cheerful conversation and amusements. Listen to music. Votes: 3

Everybody knows the Lord loveth a cheerful giver. Votes: 2

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age. Votes: 2

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age. Votes: 2

A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance. Votes: 1

Winter is dead; spring is crazy; summer is cheerful and autumn is wise! Votes: 1

There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament. Votes: 1

I am cheerful. I don't know if I'm happy. There is a difference, you know. Votes: 1

Promise to wear a cheerful appearance at all times and give every person you meet a smile. Votes: 1

A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation... is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run. Votes: 1

Never hurry. Take plenty of exercise. Always be cheerful. Take all the sleep you need. You may expect to be well. Votes: 1

Bright reds - scarlet, pillar-box red, crimson or cherry - are very cheerful and youthful. There is certainly a red for everyone. Votes: 1

I hide hurt behind a fake smile. I wear it all the time. Everyone says how I always look so cheerful. Shows what they know I guess. Votes: 1

I don't think you should have to try to be nice, I think most people are nice. I think being cheerful and nice is just a politeness. Votes: 1

One smile in the morning can change your mood for the entire day. One hug in the evening can usher you into cheerful night dreams you will never regret! Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

You find yourself refreshed in the presence of cheerful people. Why not make an honest effort to confer that pleasure on others? Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy. Votes: 1

Send out a cheerful, positive greeting, and most of the time you will get back a cheerful, positive greeting. It's also true that if you send out a negative greeting, you will, in most cases, get back a negative greeting. Votes: 1

Oh yes, there's lots of great food in America. But the fast food is about as destructive and evil as it gets. It celebrates a mentality of sloth, convenience, and a cheerful embrace of food we know is hurting us. Votes: 1

Well I don't know that I'm okay any more than anyone else is okay, I lead a happy life and a very full one - I have a happy marriage and my kids are all cheerful, and no one is finding fault with me, personally. Votes: 1

Happiness is in our own hearts. I have no regrets of anything in the past. I'm totally cheerful and happy, and I think that a lot of your attitude is not in the circumstances you find yourself in, but in the circumstances you make for yourself. Votes: 1

If you want to become a concert pianist, do it every day. You want to be a writer, do it every day. You want to become depressed, think depressing thoughts every day. You want to become an optimist, think a cheerful thought every day. Do it every day. Votes: 1

I think that the point of being an architect is to help raise the experience of everyday living, even a little. Putting a window where people would really like one. Making sure a shaving mirror in a hotel bathroom is at the right angle. Making bureaucratic buildings that are somehow cheerful. Votes: 1

A good mother remembers to serve fruit at breakfast, is always cheerful and never yells, manages not to project her own neuroses and inadequacies onto her children, is an active and beloved community volunteer. She remembers to make play dates, her children's clothes fit, she does art projects with them and enjoys all their games. Votes: 1

My father was a psychiatrist, the medical director of a mental hospital in Scotland, and when I was a student, I took vacation jobs there as a nursing assistant. So I did get to see mental illness, but I don't remember conversations about mental conditions. My father was a cheerful man with a robust attitude to such things. Votes: 1

Be cheerful. Votes: 0

Every beginning is cheerful. Votes: 0

Be cheerful and hopeful. Votes: 0

Being cheerful keeps you healthy Votes: 0

Marriage is a cheerful commitment. Votes: 0

Be positive, cheerful, grateful and expectant. Votes: 0

The cheerful loser is the winner. Votes: 0

At bottom, I'm a cheerful person. Votes: 0

Be cheerful . Strive to be happy. Votes: 0

I'm basically quite a cheerful person. Votes: 0

Be cheerful, if you are wise. Votes: 0

That roguish and cheerful vice, politeness. Votes: 0

It's a divine art to be cheerful. Votes: 0

A cheerful mind is a vigorous mind. Votes: 0

All the untidyactivity continues, awful but cheerful. Votes: 0

Virtue may be cheerful without forgetting its dignity. Votes: 0

The cheerful loser is a sort of winner. Votes: 0

Learn the sweet magic of a cheerful face. Votes: 0

A cheerful look brings joy to the heart. Votes: 0

Humility, after the first shock, is cheerful virtue. Votes: 0

All succeeds with people who are sweet and cheerful. Votes: 0

Lay aside life-harming heaviness, And entertain a cheerful disposition. Votes: 0

A cheerful, intelligent face is the end of culture. Votes: 0

My religion of life is always to be cheerful. Votes: 0

My god is a cheerful, pleasant, lively, and good-natured being. Votes: 0

A man he seems of cheerful yesterdays And confident tomorrows. Votes: 0

The Great Snow! How cheerful it is to hear of! Votes: 0

The more qi-full you are, the more cheerful you are. Votes: 0

If you can't be cheerful, be as cheerful as you can. Votes: 0

Be cheerful in all that you do. Live joyfully. Live happily. Votes: 0

I can't be happy every day but I can be cheerful. Votes: 0

Even if we can't be happy, we must always be cheerful. Votes: 0

Having a yacht is a reason for being more cheerful than most. Votes: 0

Is there such thing as a cheerful pessimist? That's what I am. Votes: 0

A cheerful music is a powerful light for the shadows of sorrow! Votes: 0

The Lord loveth a cheerful giver. He also accepteth from a grouch. Votes: 0

Being cheerful and affable with people is by itself half of wisdom. Votes: 0

Despite of it all, the Negro remains... cool, strong, imperturbable, and cheerful. Votes: 0

The supposed unhappiness of the rich is always a cheerful topic of conversation. Votes: 0

Remain cheerful, For nothing destructive can pierce through The solid wall of cheerfulness. Votes: 0

Some people would be discontented in Paradise, others ... are cheerful in a graveyard. Votes: 0

Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age. Votes: 0

Know, then, whatever cheerful and serene supports the mind supports the body too. Votes: 0

Oh! blest with temper, whose unclouded ray Can make to-morrow cheerful as to-day. Votes: 0

The sad dislike those who are cheerful, and the cheerful dislike the melancholy. Votes: 0

I realize that, while often happy and often cheerful, I am always sad. Votes: 0

The worship most acceptable to God comes from a thankful and cheerful heart. Votes: 0

A cheerful face is nearly as good for an invalid as healthy weather. Votes: 0

A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit saps a person's strength Votes: 0

Hark, how the cheerful birds do chaunt their lays, and carol of love's praise. Votes: 0

In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise. Votes: 0

Be cheerful -- the problems that worry us most are those that never arrive. Votes: 0

Sports keep you feeling cheerful, feeling spirited, it's a kind of a thriving feeling. Votes: 0

And feeling clever, I've always thought, is just a sigh away from being cheerful. Votes: 0

Laughter is easier minute by minute, spilled with prodigality, tipped out at a cheerful word. Votes: 0

The miserable person is easily enslaved.The cheerful person,the blissful person,cannot be enslaved. Votes: 0

The most congenial social occasions are those ruled by cheerful deference of each for all. Votes: 0

In misfortune if you cultivate a cheerful disposition you will reap the advantage of it. Votes: 0

Let's fight for our happiness by following a daily program of cheerful and constructive thinking. Votes: 0

And all this day an unaccustomed spirit lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts. Votes: 0

A cheerful demeanor makes brighter the day; as the sun, chasing darkness and sorrow away. Votes: 0

The same tools that make any writer good, plus a cheerful willingness to suspend belief. Votes: 0

I am still determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may be. Votes: 0

A cheerful temper, joined with innocence will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful, and wit good-natured. Votes: 0

The game of life looks cheerful when one carries a treasure safe in his heart. Votes: 0

The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man. Votes: 0

Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances that we know to be desperate. Votes: 0

If a man must make himself appear cheerful; he must know why he is miserable. Votes: 0

A cheerful life is what the Muses love. A soaring spirit is their prime delight. Votes: 0

The cheerful mind perseveres and the strong mind hews its way through a thousand difficulties. Votes: 0

Getting a divorce is nearly always as cheerful and useful an occupation as breaking valuable china. Votes: 0

...remember after every autumn, the flora senses the rapturous kiss of cheerful spring.(Book-Love Vs Destiny) Votes: 0

Religion is life inspired by Heavenly Love; and life is something fresh and cheerful and vigorous. Votes: 0

One reason why the progressive state is 'cheerful' is that social conflict is diminished by it. Votes: 0

much of the possibility of being cheerful comes from the faculty of throwing oneself beyond oneself ... Votes: 0

Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world. Votes: 0

To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old Votes: 0

Since God has given me a cheerful heart, He will forgive me for serving Him cheerfully. Votes: 0

In the belly of Leviathan ... one can either despair and perish, or be cheerful and persevere. Votes: 0

It is cheerful to God when you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart. Votes: 0

What I really want from Music: That it be cheerful and profound like an afternoon in October... Votes: 0

O pusillanimous Heart, be comforted And, like a cheerful traveller, take the road Singing beside the hedge. Votes: 0

For since mine eyes your joyous sight did miss, my cheerful day is turned to cheerless night. Votes: 0

I think sometimes people think cheerful is a synonym for dumb, so no one is ever cheerful. Votes: 0

I have been feeling very much lately that cheerful insecurity is what our Lord asks of us. Votes: 0

The person who gives with a smile is the best giver because God loves a cheerful giver. Votes: 0

There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land (and work) again after a cheerful, careless voyage. Votes: 0

No, no, no. There's no such thing as cheap and cheerful. It's cheap and nasty & expensive and cheerful. Votes: 0

Why do we people in churches seem like cheerful, brainless tourists on a packaged tour of the Absolute? Votes: 0

Simple smile, a cheerful hello or a word of encouragement It's amazing what an impact you will have. Votes: 0

I have always been - I think any student of history almost inevitably is - a cheerful pessimist. Votes: 0

Just once, I want to meet the villain in a cheerful, brightly lit room. Possibly one with kittens. Votes: 0

I like being cheerful. Isn't it nice to be able to have fun and laugh while doing interviews? Votes: 0

Being a cheerful hobbit, he had not needed hope, as long as despair could be postponed. (Of Sam) Votes: 0

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old. Votes: 0

The thousand mysteries around us would not trouble but interest us, if only we had cheerful, healthy hearts. Votes: 0

The world needs all the help you can give by way of cheerful, optimistic, inspiring thought and personal example. Votes: 0

Even-minded and cheerful. When things go bad, you'll find that the same kind of attitude comes to you naturally. Votes: 0

Some people habitually wear sadness, like a garment, and think it a becoming grace. God loves a cheerful worshipper. Votes: 0

I am watching the Earth. The visibility is good. I feel well and cheerful. The machine is functioning normally. Votes: 0

Keep company with the more cheerful sort of the Godly; there is no mirth like the mirth of believers. Votes: 0

The sparrows are preparing for winter, each one dressed in a plain brown coat and singing a cheerful song. Votes: 0

I am quite a cheerful, dark person. On the outside, I'm optimistic but I expect the worst to happen. Votes: 0

The charming aspect of Christmas is the fact that it expresses good will in a cheerful, happy, benevolent, non-sacrificial way. Votes: 0

It is the Lord's Day, and I do believe that cheerful hearts and faces are not unpleasant in His sight. Votes: 0

Rising from the dead? Glowing at sunrise? What did that make him, the god of cheerful mornings and macabre surprises? Votes: 0

I'd like to think of my self as not melancholic at all, I think I'm a pretty cheerful person, really. Votes: 0

It is the hopeful, buoyant, cheerful attitude of mind that wins. Optimism is a success builder; pessimism an achievement killer. Votes: 0

I've always tried to be cheerful, because I think people who whine are boring, and I never could tolerate bores. Votes: 0

Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything. Votes: 0

With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy. Votes: 0

Can you suppose there's any harm in looking as cheerful and being as cheerful as our poor circumstances will permit? Votes: 0

Don't fall into the trap of thinking about politics in your workplace too much. Just work hard, be cheerful, ignore distractions. Votes: 0

In the enemy's territory, be as silent as the owl's wings; in friend's territory, be as cheerful as the nightingale's songs. Votes: 0

Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself. Votes: 0

He who believes in goodness has the essence of all faith. He is a man of cheerful yesterdays and confident to-morrows. Votes: 0

Too cheerful a morality is a loose morality; it is appropriate only to decadent peoples and is found only among them. Votes: 0

On Lee as commander: "He had a cheerful dignity and could praise them (his men) without seeming to court their favor. Votes: 0

Optimism is the cheerful frame of mind that enables a teakettle to sing, though in hot water up to its nose. Votes: 0

I grew up with the Gene Kelly look at war. The cheerful kind of stories you tell about a horrendous war. Votes: 0

He who follows reason in all things is both tranquil and active at the same time, and also cheerful and collected. Votes: 0

One reason that a lot of people see me as cheerful and optimistic is that my expectations are really rather low. Votes: 0

A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner. Votes: 0

A woman flees from temptation, but a man just crawls away from it in the cheerful hope that it may overtake him. Votes: 0

A cheerful, easy, open countenance will make fools think you a good-natured man, and make designing men think you an undesigning one. Votes: 0

A cheerful intelligent face is the end of culture, and success enough. For it indicates the purpose of Nature and wisdom attained. Votes: 0

Switch on and keep on in yourself the cheerful buttons... Those marked Joy, Laughter, Happiness, Love, Passion for life, Gratitude for life. Votes: 0

O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams. Votes: 0

The banjo is such a happy instrument--you can't play a sad song on the banjo - it always comes out so cheerful. Votes: 0

I always found the Chicago audience to be a smart, fast-moving, violent and cheerful lot, and it's always good to be back. Votes: 0

Let the mind be cheerful but calm. Never let it run into excesses, because every excess will be followed by a reaction. Votes: 0

Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated. Votes: 0

I wonder how it is that so cheerful-looking a tree as the willow should ever have become associated with ideas of sadness. Votes: 0

If home is to have a greater lure than a tavern the wife must be at least as cheerful as the waitress. Votes: 0

I can do only one thing, like a little dog follow closely the Master's footsteps. Pray that I be a cheerful dog. Votes: 0

Autumn The cheerful sundial it falls in the shadow of thy leaves there where your branches brace themselves against the gate of heaven Votes: 0

Tis the privilege of Art Thus to play its cheerful part, Man on earth to acclimate And bend the exile to his fate. Votes: 0

As God loves a cheerful giver, so he also loves a cheerful taker. Who takes hold of his gifts with a glad heart. Votes: 0

When an office begins to look like a family tree, you'll find worms tucked away snug and cheerful in most of the apples. Votes: 0

Being organized will give you more free time, contribute to a cheerful nature, and add to the peace and security of your home. Votes: 0

Those who have easy, cheerful attitudes tend to be happier than those with less pleasant temperaments, regardless of money, making it, or success. Votes: 0

Many merry Christmases, many happy New Years. Unbroken friendships, great accumulations of cheerful recollections and affections on earth, and heaven for us all. Votes: 0

autumn The cheerful sundial; it falls in the shadow of thy leaves. there where your branches brace themselves against the gate of heaven Votes: 0

Everyone, including you, just naturally feels better when exposed to a cheerful, optimistic individual, regardless of the nature or length of the contact. Votes: 0

Ten times must you laugh during the day, and be cheerful; otherwise your stomach, the father of affliction, will disturb you in the night. Votes: 0

I confess I love littleness almost in all things. A little convenient estate, a little cheerful house, a little company, and a little feast.... Votes: 0

Christianity in the suburb is cheerful. The church is a centre of social activity and those who go to church need never be lonely. Votes: 0

When the mind has once formed the habit of holding cheerful, happy, prosperous pictures, it will not be easy to form the opposite habit. Votes: 0

The greatness that would make us grave, Is but an empty thing. What more than mirth would mortals have? The cheerful man's a king. Votes: 0

. . to cook well and with imagination you have to be in a cheerful and contented frame of mind, and thus inclined to be generous. Votes: 0

A man too careful of danger liveth in continual torment, But a cheerful expecter of the best hath a fountain of joy within him. Votes: 0

One of the weaknesses of the company now is it is a bit cheap and cheerful and overly nasty, and that reflects my personality. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

"¦a cheerful black shadow reared up behind him as he spoke, thundering a happy challenge to my Dark Passenger, which slid forward and bellowed back. Votes: 0

True religion and virtue give a cheerful and happy turn to the mind, admit of all true pleasures, and even procure for us the highest. Votes: 0

A deliberate attitude that you have to hold in your mind as one of the basic rules of yoga is to remain even-minded and cheerful.. Votes: 0

All people that on earth do dwellsing to the Lord with cheerful voiceHim serve with fear, his praise forth tellcome ye before him and rejoice Votes: 0

Be confident, cheerful and contented. The mind can produce any degree of contentment and peace. To generate these, no other agency or help is required. Votes: 0

The solemnity of the annual Nobel ceremonies in Stockholm with the cheerful bad taste of the grand opening of a shopping center in Los Angeles. Votes: 0

One means very effectual for the preservation of health is a quiet and cheerful mind, not afflicted with violent passions or distracted with immoderate cares. Votes: 0

As it somehow always manages before the winter solstice, but never after, the early darkness was cheerful and promising, even for those who had nothing. Votes: 0

Life satisfaction essentially measures cheerful moods, so it is not entitled to a central place in any theory that aims to be more than a happiology. Votes: 0

The secret of perfect health lies in keeping the mind always cheerful - never worried, never hurried, never borne down by any fear, thought or anxiety. Votes: 0

I love better to count time from spring to spring; it seems to me far more cheerful to reckon the year by blossoms than by blight. Votes: 0

We who are quotatious are never truly alone, but always hear the cheerful flow of remarks made by dead writers so much more intelligent than we. Votes: 0

Growing up and living in England, I'm surrounded by grey skies and sarcasm, so when I came to America, my first impressions were bright, hopeful, cheerful. Votes: 0

Be cheerful, also, and seek not external help, nor the peace which others give. A man must stand straight, and not be kept straight by others. Votes: 0

Web 2.0 ideas have a chirpy, cheerful rhetoric to them, but I think they consistently express a profound pessimism about humans, human nature and the human future. Votes: 0

There is something very cheerful and courageous in the setting-out of a child on a journey of speech with so small baggage and with so much confidence ... Votes: 0

The early months of marriage often are times of critical tumult,--whether that of a shrimp pool or of deeper water,--which afterwards subside into cheerful peace. Votes: 0

What happiness the rural maid attends, In cheerful labour while each day she spends! She gratefully receives what Heav'n has sent, And, rich in poverty, enjoys content. Votes: 0

For life, good youth, hath never an illWhich hope cannot scatter, and faith cannot kill;And stubborn realities never shall bindThe free-spreading wings of a cheerful mind. Votes: 0

Bad day?" "Every day is a bad day here." "Eh, this place isnt't so terrible." "How are you always cheerful?" "Alcohol," he says with a sideways grin. Votes: 0

If you are melancholy for the first time, you will find, upon a little inquiry, that others have been melancholy many times, and yet are cheerful now. Votes: 0

Always keep the mind cheerful. Everyone will die once. Cowards suffer the pangs of death again and again, solely due to the fear in their own minds. Votes: 0

Let the soul be assured that somewhere in the universe it should rejoin its friend, and it would be content and cheerful alone for a thousand years. Votes: 0

Go out more, keep cheerful as well as busy, for you are the sunshine-maker of the family, and if you get dismal there is no fair weather. Votes: 0

It is difficult to realize how great a part of all that is cheerful and delightful in the recollections of our own life is associated with trees. Votes: 0

This is the twilight of the banks. It would be a more cheerful spectacle if we could envision the dawn of the institutions that will replace them Votes: 0

This was a new skill she'd acquired, the ability to look, to the outside world, utterly serene and even cheerful, while, in her skull, all was chaos. Votes: 0

Go out more, keep cheerful as well as busy, for you are the sunshine-maker of the family, and if you get dismal there is no fair weather." Votes: 0

Even if we lose the wealth of thousands, and our life is sacrificed, we...should keep smiling and be cheerful keeping our faith in God and Truth. Votes: 0

We must be bright and cheerful. Long faces do not make religion. Religion should be the most joyful thing in the world, because it is the best. Votes: 0

I always look on the black side of life. That way, you won't be disappointed and I'm cheerful if it doesn't work out. I'm a cheerful pessimist. Votes: 0

Adverbs is a book about love, and I thought that was pretty cheerful, but people who are reading it now are telling me that it's actually quite dark. Votes: 0

You can't dance cheerfully. Dancing is too important. It can be wild or solemn or gay or lewd or art for art's sake, but it can't be cheerful. Votes: 0

Most people probably assume that Hristo is a grumpy, stubborn guy... That can't be further from the truth. He's a cheerful, candid person that never holds a grudge. Votes: 0

Be cheerful in all that you do. Live joyfully. Live happily. Live enthusiastically, knowing that God does not dwell in gloom and melancholy, but in light and love. Votes: 0

The cheerful Sabbath bells, wherever heard, Strike pleasant on the sense, most like the voice Of one, who from the far-off hills proclaims Tidings of good to Zion. Votes: 0

For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind? Votes: 0

I think that people like the idea that fans are sort of slightly eccentric and strange, but generally I've just found them very creative and warm and cheerful. Votes: 0

I have produced things that I would say were sincerely cheerful. But then I am reminded by other people that no one else would see them that way. Votes: 0

Nor love, not honor, wealth nor power, can give the heart a cheerful hour when health is lost. Be timely wise; With health all taste of pleasure flies. Votes: 0

Since being a prisoner was a definite improvement over being dead, which was what she thought was going to happen when the Loundergs had attacked, Suzy was quite cheerful. Votes: 0

One must never have spared oneself, one must have acquired hardness as a habit to be cheerful and in good spirits in the midst of nothing but hard truths. Votes: 0

Show me somebody who is always smiling, always cheerful, always optimistic, and I will show you somebody who hasn't the faintest idea what the heck is really going on. Votes: 0

I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were felt by the whole human race, there would not be one cheerful face left on earth. Votes: 0

How am I doing so far?" she asked, forcing a cheerful lightness into her voice. "You're doing very well," Nick's lazy voice mocked. "I'm half convinced that I'm invisible. Votes: 0

Distrust your religion unless it is cheerful, unless it turns every act and deed to music and exults in attempts to catch the harmony of the new life.‎ Votes: 0

The Führer is always quite cheerful, cheerful with all his heart, when he is having tea with his friends during the night, or when he is training his dogs! Votes: 0

Overly positive, horrendously cheerful people can make a depressed person even more depressed. In fact, perhaps the least helpful thing one can say to a depressed person is, "Cheer up!" Votes: 0

I am glad to think I am not bound to make the world go right, but only to discover and to do, with cheerful heart, the work that God appoints. Votes: 0

The abundance, the solidity, and the splendor of the results already achieved by science are well fitted to inspire us with a cheerful confidence in the soundness of its method. Votes: 0

You are. I'm just fatalistically cheerful. We all come into the story halfway through, we all catch up as best we can, and we're all gonna die before it ends. Votes: 0

Let's be cheerful! We have no more right to steal the brightness out of the day for our own family than we have to steal the purse of a stranger. Votes: 0

What a new face courage puts on everything. - Ralph Waldo Emerson To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old. Votes: 0

The trouble with traditional American conservatism is that it lacks a naturally cheerful, optimistic disposition. Not only does it lack one, it regards signs of one as evidence of unsoundness, irresponsibility. Votes: 0

It is also important to guard against mistaking for good-nature what is properly good-humor,--a cheerful flow of spirits and easy temper not readily annoyed, which is compatible with great selfishness. Votes: 0

There is nothing sadder than the cheerful letters of the dead, expressing hopes that were never fulfilled, ambitions that were never achieved, dreams cut off before they could come to fruition. Votes: 0

For other things mild Heav'n a time ordains, And disapproves that care, though wise in show, That with superfluous burden loads the day, And when God sends a cheerful hour, refrains. Votes: 0

To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them. Votes: 0

Vaudeville was characterized by sunny optimism, acts that were uplifting, cheerful, and clean. It provided a fanciful, magical escape, but after Black Friday, the tone of American entertainment changed almost overnight. Votes: 0

The mind that is cheerful in its present state, will be averse to all solicitude as to the future, and will meet the bitter occurrences of life with a placid smile. Votes: 0

The landlord of colonial days may not have been the greatest man in town, but he was certainly the best-known, often the most popular, and ever the most picturesque and cheerful figure. Votes: 0

The destructive character knows only one watchword: make room; only one activity: clearing away ... The destructive character is young and cheerful. For destroying rejuvenates in clearing away traces of our own age ... Votes: 0

The secret of happiness is in a cheerful, contented mind. He is poor who is dissatisfied; he is rich who is contented with what he has, and can enjoy what others own. Votes: 0

Judi Dench is incredible. She takes acting to another level. She is a thorough professional. She is always smiling and cheerful. She painstakingly rehearses with co-stars and allows you to be natural. Votes: 0

Obedience, to be perfect, must be voluntary; it must be pure and cheerful. But most of all it must be internal. I would add that it must also be blind and persevering. Votes: 0

If you attach your heart to certain places and occupations, obedience oftentimes places you in some other place that you may not like; to be always cheerful, be always humble and obedient. Votes: 0

For the air of youth, Hopeful and cheerful, in thy blood will reign A melancholy damp of cold and dry To weigh thy spirits down, and last consume The balm of life. Votes: 0

On the whole, Flora liked it better when they were silent, though it did rather give her the feeling that she was acting in one of the less cheerful German highbrow films. Votes: 0

You may have gathered that I am not the most cheerful of revellers - some characterise me as the death and soullessness of any party but it wasn't always so, believe me. Votes: 0

I am gaining in health slowly, and am quite cheerful in view of my approaching end, - being fully persuaded that I am worth inconceivably more to hang than any other purpose. Votes: 0

They don't need walls and water to keep the prisoners in, not when they're trapped inside their own heads, incapable of a single cheerful thought. Most go mad within weeks - Lupin Votes: 0

It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent. Votes: 0

Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants. Votes: 0

Care more for the individual patient than for the special features of the disease. . . . Put yourself in his place . . . The kindly word, the cheerful greeting, the sympathetic look - these the patient understands. Votes: 0

To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism - this is the art of living. Votes: 0

Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour: England hath need of thee! . . . . . . Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart: So didst thou travel on life's common way In cheerful godliness. Votes: 0

The gates of Hell are open night and day; smooth the descent, and easy is the way: but, to return, and view the cheerful skies; in this, the task and mighty labor lies. Votes: 0

Well, we can ride together for a while longer. The highway south is farther along this way. I'll be glad of some cheerful company." "First time anyone's said that about me," Halt replied. Votes: 0

When he is cheerful--when the sun shines into his mind--then I venture to peep in, just as far as the light reaches, but no further. It is holy ground where the shadow falls! Votes: 0

Joy, not grit, is the hallmark of holy obedience. We need to be light-hearted in what we do to avoid taking ourselves too seriously. It is a cheerful revolt against self and pride. Votes: 0

It was just that she had the need to tell him something honest, something honest and unhappy, because cheerful lies tonight were too depressing and too sharp, turning in on her like pins Votes: 0

Then very faintly, he heard above his head the low familiar murmur of the sea outside. At once the comfortable noise made him cheerful, and he even remembered what they were supposed to be. Votes: 0

Please, trust me, I most definitely can be cheerful. I can be amiable. Agreeable. Affable. And that's only the A's. Just don't ask me to be nice. Nice has nothing to do with me. Votes: 0

It is winter time, my friend; buy couple of breads; find a place calm and quiet and feed the birds; and for this action of yours, ask no more reward than their cheerful singings! Votes: 0

Curiosity endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will. Votes: 0

There occurs the beautiful feeling that only humanity together is the true human being, and that the individual can be cheerful and happy only if he has the courage to feel himself in the Whole. Votes: 0

I tend to think the world is a bit of a miserable place, so anyone who can add to people's optimistic, cheerful side is doing a good job, which is what I hope I'm doing. Votes: 0