Cheerful Quotes - Page 19

• There is nothing sadder than the cheerful letters of the dead, expressing hopes that were never fulfilled, ambitions that were never achieved, dreams cut off before they could come to fruition.

  Barbara Mertz

  Dream, Ambition, Cutting

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• What a new face courage puts on everything. - Ralph Waldo Emerson To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Wisdom, Years, Hopeful

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• The gates of Hell are open night and day; smooth the descent, and easy is the way: but, to return, and view the cheerful skies; in this, the task and mighty labor lies.

  Virgil

  Lying, Night, Views

  Virgil (2015). “The Aeneid: "Illustrated"”, p.176, eKitap Projesi

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• Nor love, not honor, wealth nor power, can give the heart a cheerful hour when health is lost. Be timely wise; With health all taste of pleasure flies.

  John Gay

  Wise, Heart, Giving

  John Gay (1926). “The Poetical Works of John Gay: Including 'Polly', 'The Beggar's Opera' and Selections from the Other Dramatic Work”

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• What happiness the rural maid attends, In cheerful labour while each day she spends! She gratefully receives what Heav'n has sent, And, rich in poverty, enjoys content.

  John Gay

  Contentment, Each Day, Maids

  John Gay (1806). “The Poetical Works”, p.17

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• On a throne at the center of a sense of humor sits a capacity for irony. All wit rests on a cheerful awareness of life's incongruities. It is a gentling awareness, and no politician without it should be allowed near power.

  George Will

  Thrones, Irony, Sense Of Humor

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

  Ninian Smart

  Life Is, Difficult, Humans

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• Whatever else you do or forbear, impose upon yourself the task of happiness; and now and then abandon yourself to the joy of laughter. And however much you condemn the evil in the world, remember that the world is not all evil; that somewhere children are at play, as you yourself in the old days; that women still find joy in the stalwart hearts of men; And that men, treading with restless feet their many paths, may yet find refuge from the storms of the world in the cheerful house of love.

  Max Ehrmann

  Laughter, Children, Heart

  Max Ehrmann (2017). “The Desiderata of Happiness”, p.7, Souvenir Press Ltd

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• O pusillanimous Heart, be comforted
  And, like a cheerful traveller, take the road
  Singing beside the hedge.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Heart, Singing, Traveller

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.84

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• Since God has given me a cheerful heart, He will forgive me for serving Him cheerfully.

  Joseph Haydn

  Heart, Forgive Me, Forgiving

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• 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.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  People, Matter, Astronomers

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• Being organized will give you more free time, contribute to a cheerful nature, and add to the peace and security of your home.

  Deniece Schofield

  Home, Giving, Add

  Deniece Schofield (1994). “Confessions of an Organized Homemaker: The Secrets of Uncluttering Your Home and Taking Control of Your Life”, Betterway Books

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• Cheerful poor is rich with a smile, sulky rich is poor with a bullion of gold.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Gold, Sulky, Rich

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• I think that people like the idea that fans are sort of slightly eccentric and strange, but generally I've just found them very creative and warm and cheerful.

  Peter Capaldi

  Thinking, Ideas, People

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• I am afraid of people because they want me to lead the same kind of life as they do. They want me to dance jolly and cheerful things. I do not like jollity. I love life.

  Vaslav Nijinsky

  Love Life, People, Want

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• Prison is a severe and terrible punishment; but for me, thanks to Arthur Balfour, this was not so. I was much cheered on my arrival by the warder at the gate, who had to take particulars about me. He asked my religion, and I replied 'agnostic.' He asked how to spell it, and remarked with a sigh: 'Well, there are many religions, but I suppose they all worship the same God.' This remark kept me cheerful for about a week.

  Bertrand Russell

  God, Punishment, Religion

  Bertrand Russell (1998). “Autobiography”, p.257, Psychology Press

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• It is very important that children learn from their fathers and mothers how to love one another- not in the school, not from the teacher, but from you. It is very important that you share with your children the joy of that smile. There will be misunderstandings; every family has its cross, its suffering. Always be the first to forgive with a smile. Be cheerful, be happy.

  Mother Teresa

  Mother, Teacher, Children

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• As God loves a cheerful giver, so he also loves a cheerful taker. Who takes hold of his gifts with a glad heart.

  John Donne

  Heart, God Love, Giver

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• As a result of all this hardship, dirt, thirst, and wombats, you would expect Australians to be a dour lot. Instead, they are genial, jolly, cheerful, and always willing to share a kind word with a stranger, unless they are an American.

  Douglas Adams

  Hardship, Dirt, Kind

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• I am less affected by their heroism who stood up for half an hour in the front line at Buena Vista, than by the steady and cheerful valor of the men who inhabit the snow-plow for their winter quarters; who have not merely the three-o'-clock-in-the-morning courage, which Bonaparte thought was the rarest, but whose courage does not go to rest so early, who go to sleep only when the storm sleeps or the sinews of their iron steed are frozen.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Morning, Sleep, Winter

  Henry David Thoreau (2004). “Walden: 150th Anniversary Illustrated Edition of the American Classic”, p.115, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Be cheerful, also, and seek not external help, nor the peace which others give. A man must stand straight, and not be kept straight by others.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Men, Giving, Helping

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• My brother Alan - who was seven years younger than me - died from leukemia when he was 52. He never knew a day's good health - I wish I could have given him some of my good health. But he was always so cheerful and sweet.

  Brian Blessed

  Sweet, Brother, Years

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• Being cheerful keeps you healthy

  Solomon

  Healthy

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• For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind?

  Thomas Gray

  Anxiety, Dumb, Looks

  'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' (1751) l. 85

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• Never worry. Be ever cheerful. Always laugh and smile. You can use the following powerful autosuggestion: "Mr. Worry, goodbye to you. I am a different person now. I am made of sterner stuff." Worry will now be afraid to show his face to you. You can then remove the worries of many of your friends.

  Sivananda

  Motivational, Goodbye, Powerful

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