Cheerful Quotes - Page 21

• The cozy fire is bright and gay, The merry kettle boils away and hums a cheerful song. I sing the saucer and the cup; Pray, Mary, fill the teapot up, And do not make it strong

  Barry Pain

  Song, Strong, Gay

  Barry Pain (1892). “Playthings and Parodies”, London [etc.] Cassell

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• Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour: England hath need of thee! . . . . . . Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart: So didst thou travel on life's common way In cheerful godliness.

  William Wordsworth

  Life, Stars, Soul

  1802 'Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour', complete poem (published 1807).

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• As we explore the nature of our gift, our goal is to move toward this kind of giving: cheerful giving that flows gently and easily, kingly giving that flows surely from who we are. As we encounter the questions—Who are we ? What do we love ?—the gift we bring will be easy, because our gift naturally emerges from who we are. The offering we bring is ourselves, just as we are. Our gift is our true nature. There can be no greater gift than this.

  Wayne Muller

  Moving, Offering, Giving

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• The secret of happiness is in a cheerful, contented mind. He is poor who is dissatisfied; he is rich who is contented with what he has, and can enjoy what others own.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Happiness, Secret, Mind

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• To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Art, Things In Life, Creating

  "Luncheon of the Boating Party‎". Book by Susan Vreeland, 2007.

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• For other things mild Heav'n a time ordains, And disapproves that care, though wise in show, That with superfluous burden loads the day, And when God sends a cheerful hour, refrains.

  John Milton

  Wise, Care, Hours

  John Milton (1824). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors, Principally from the Editions of Thomas Newton, Charles Dunster and Thomas Warton ; to which is Prefixed Newton's Life of Milton”, p.213

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• I would not say that old men grow wise, for men never grow wise; and many old men retain a very attractive childishness and cheerful innocence. Elderly people are often much more romantic than younger people, and sometimes even more adventurous, having begun to realize how many things they do not know.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Wise, Men, Elderly

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• She was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight, A lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament; Her eyes as stars of twilight fair, Like twilights too her dusky hair, But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful dawn.

  William Wordsworth

  Time, Stars, Twilight

  1804 'She was a Phantom of delight', l.1-4 (published 1807).

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• What I really want from Music: That it be cheerful and profound like an afternoon in October.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Profound, Afternoon, Want

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo”, p.251, Vintage

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• The bells which toll for mankind are - most of them, anyway - like the bells of Alpine cattle; they are attached to our own necks, and it must be our fault if they do not make a cheerful and harmonious sound.

  Peter Medawar

  Bells, Faults, Necks

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• I always look on the black side of life. That way, you won't be disappointed and I'm cheerful if it doesn't work out. I'm a cheerful pessimist.

  Paul Davies

  Spring, Work Out, Black

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• He that loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter. By study, by reading, by thinking, one may innocently divert and pleasantly entertain himself, as in all weathers, so in all fortunes.

  Isaac Barrow

  Reading, Book, Thinking

  "The theological works of Isaac Barrow".

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• When I was about 17, I had a row with my mother and left home for six months, renting a flat and working as a waitress for a while. I learnt you could double your earnings if you gave good, cheerful service. It taught me that in any job you can improve your lot.

  Anne Robinson

  Mother, Jobs, Home

  "Anne Robinson: 'I was paid £300 a week for Points of View, now I'm worth £30m'". Interview with Roz Lewis, www.telegraph.co.uk. December 20, 2015.

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• Of this you may be certain: The Lord especially loves righteous women-women who are not only faithful but filled with faith, women who are optimistic and cheerful because they know who they are and where they are going, women who are striving to live and serve as women of God.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Optimistic, Faithful, May

  M. Russell Ballard (2002). “As Women of God”, Bookcraft

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