CHEERFULNESS

A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance.

The Bible, Proverbs 15:13 kjv

A cheerful look brings joy to the heart, and good news gives health to the bones.

The Bible, Proverbs 15:30

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.

Thomas Carlyle

I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.

Charles Dickens

So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness – an open and noble temper.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is not fitting, when one is in God’s service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.

Francis of Assisi

The true source of cheerfulness is benevolence.

P. Godwin

Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.

James Russell Lowell

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

Mark Twain

Cheerfulness in most cheerful people, is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline.

Edwin Percy Whipple