Cheerful Quotes - Page 6

Everybody knows the Lord loveth a cheerful giver.

My religion of life is always to be cheerful.

A cherefull looke makes a dish a feast.

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.

To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take a cheerful view of their capacity, their conduct, or their position; and a robust candor never waited to be asked for its opinion.

Be cheerful in all that you do. Live joyfully. Live happily.

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

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.

Much of the possibility of being cheerful comes from the faculty of throwing oneself beyond oneself.

Nature designed us to be of good cheer.

Have you noticed that the astronomers and mathematicians are much the most cheerful people of the lot? I suppose that perpetually contemplating things on so vast a scale makes them feel either that it doesn't matter a hoot anyway, or that anything so large and elaborate must have some sense in it somewhere.

Appearances are not reality; but they often can be a convincing alternative to it. You can control appearances most of the time, but facts are what they are. When the facts are too sharp, you can craft a cheerful version of the situation and cover the facts the way that you can covered a battered old four-slice toaster with a knitted cozy featuring images of kittens.

I can't be happy every day but I can be cheerful.

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

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.

The destructive character knows only one watchword: make room. And only one activity: clearing away. The destructive character is young and cheerful. For destroying rejuvenates, because it clears away the traces of our own age; it cheers, because everything cleared away means to the destroyer a complete reduction, indeed a rooting out, of his own condition.

Virtue may be cheerful without forgetting its dignity.

Life is very difficult and we owe it to our fellow human beings to be as cheerful as we can.

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

The more qi-full you are, the more cheerful you are.

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

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.

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

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

To do God's will as fast as it is made known to us, to inquire hourly -- I had almost said each moment -- what He requires of us, and to leave ourselves, our friends, and every interest at His control, with a cheerful trust that the path which He marks out leads to our perfection and to Himself, -- this is at once our duty and happiness; and why will we not walk in the plain, simple way?.