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Cheerfulness Quotes


These are some of the best 'Cheerfulness' quotations and sayings.


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A cheerful look makes a dish a feast

A cheerful temper joined with innocence will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful, and wit good-natured. It will lighten sickness, poverty, and affliction; convert ignorance into an amiable simplicity, and render deformity itself agreeable.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

A light heart lives long.

A man of gladness seldom falls into madness.

Always let them think of you as singing and dancing.

An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.

Burdens become light when cheerfully borne.

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

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.

Cheerfulness is health; its opposite, melancholy, is disease.

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

Gaiety alone, as it were, is the hard cash of happiness; everything else is just a promissory note.

God is glorified, not by our groans but by our thanksgivings; and all good thought and good action claim a natural alliance with good cheer.

He who sings frightens away his ills.

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

I exhort you to be of good cheer.

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!

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 the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

If I can put one touch of a rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.


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