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.
Cheerful Quotes
Cheerfulness removes the rust from the mind, lubricates our inward machinery, and enables us to do our work with fewer creaks and groans. If people were universally cheerful, probably there wouldn’t be half the quarreling or a tenth part of the wickedness there is. Cheerfulness, too, promotes health and immortality. Cheerful people live longest here […]
A great many worries can be diminished by realizing the unimportance of the matters, which is causing anxiety. Our doings are not so important as we naturally suppose; our successes and failures do not after all matter very much.
A merry heart doeth good like a medicine. (Proverbs 17:22)
A man, who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.
Continual cheerfulness is a sign of wisdom.
A light heart lives long. (Love’s Labour’s Lost)
I’m not happy, I’m cheerful. There’s a difference. A happy woman has no cares at all. A cheerful woman has cares but has learned how to deal with them.
If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
Do as your children do. They go to bed at night and sleep without worries. They don’t care whence they will get soup or bread tomorrow; they know that Father and Mother will take care of it.
