Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness – an open and noble temper.
Cheerful Quotes
Nothing will supply the want of sunshine to peaches, and, to make knowledge valuable, you must have the cheerfulness of wisdom. Whenever you are sincerely pleased, you are nourished.
An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.
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.
