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An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.
Power dwells with cheerfulness.
Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.
Let cheerfulness on happy fortune wait.
A cherefull looke makes a dish a feast.
Nature designed us to be of good cheer.
[Gratitude is] the cheerfulness of wisdom.
I think cheerfulness is a fortune in itself.
The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
I can't be happy every day but I can be cheerful.
God has blessed me with the gift of cheerfulness.
That load becomes light which is cheerfully borne.
Nothing is more graceful than habitual cheerfulness.
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
The Danish glee: the national version of cheerfulness.
The inborn geniality of some people amounts to genius.
Cheerfulness can change misfortune into love and friends.
Cheerfulness has a directly beneficial influence upon health.
Determined cheerfulness is something I happen to do very well.
What can the Creator see with greater pleasure than a happy creature?
Cheerfulness, sir, is the principle ingredient in the composition of health.
Salt is like good-humor, and nearly every thing is better for a pinch of it.
Courage, cheerfulness, and a desire to work depends mostly on good nutrition.
Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, altogether past calculation its powers of endurance.
Cheerfulness is a very great help in fostering the virtue of charity. Cheerfulness itself is a virtue.
Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb.
You can't reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height.
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility.
Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.
The required cheerfulness that characterizes many of our churches produces a suffocating environment of pat, religious answers to the painful, complex questions that riddle the lives of hurting people.
With this sweet hope of ultimate acceptance with God, I have always enjoyed much cheerfulness before men; but I have at the same time laboured incessantly to cultivate the deepest humiliation before God.
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, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.
As might be supposed, my parents were quite poor, but we somehow never seemed to lack anything we needed, and I never saw a trace of discontent or a failure in cheerfulness over their lot in life, as indeed over anything.
Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God.
When I get on stage, my first goal is not to show my expertise, but on the contrary, to give a bit of happiness, of joy, of cheerfulness. I am firmly convinced that in order to sing well, you must love your neighbor and be passionate about life.
Let us instance one respect in which American life has recently undergone a great change. We allude to its increased devotion to pleasure, to happiness, to dancing, to sport... to the delights of the country, to laughter, and to all forms of cheerfulness.
I have sacrificed not only my favorite scheme of life, but the softer affections of the heart, and my prospects of domestic happiness, and I am ready to sacrifice my life also, with cheerfulness, if that forfeiture could restore peace and good will among mankind.
There is a collective as well as an individual humor inclining peoples to sadness or cheerfulness, making them see things in bright or somber lights. In fact, only society can pass a collective opinion on the value of human life; for this the individual is incompetent.
I think that is a better thing than thanksgiving: thanks-living. How is this to be done? By a general cheerfulness of manner, by an obedience to the command of Him by whose mercy we live, by a perpetual, constant delighting of ourselves in the Lord, and by a submission of our desires to His will.
