Cheerful Quotes - Page 20

• Life is like a blanket too short. You pull it up and your toes rebel, you yank it down and shivers meander about your shoulder; but cheerful folks manage to draw their knees up and pass a very comfortable night.

  Howard Marion-Crawford

  Life, Night, Rebel

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• You can't dance cheerfully. Dancing is too important. It can be wild or solemn or gay or lewd or art for art's sake, but it can't be cheerful.

  Rex Stout

  Art, Gay, Dancing

  Rex Stout (2010). “Champagne for One”, p.27, Crimeline

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• Despite of it all, the Negro remains... cool, strong, imperturbable, and cheerful.

  Frederick Douglass

  Strong, Remains, Despite

  Frederick Douglass (1968). “The mind and heart of Frederick Douglass: excerpts from speeches of the great Negro orator”, Ty Crowell Co

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• The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given - all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others.

  Frederic William Maitland

  Gratitude, Memories, Knowledge

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• Did everyone make the most ghastly blunders at regularly intervals through their life and live to regret them ever afterward? Was everyone's life filled with confusing and contradictory mix of guilt and innocence, hatred and love, concern and unconcern, and any number of other pairings of polar opposites? Or were most people one thing or the other - good or bad, cheerful or crotchety, generous or miserly, and so on.

  Mary Balogh

  Regret, Opposites, Numbers

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• Recipe for success: Be polite, prepare yourself for whatever you are asked to do, keep yourself tidy, be cheerful, don't be envious, be honest with yourself so you will be honest with others, be helpful, interest yourself in your job, don't pity yourself, be quick to praise, be loyal to your friends, avoid prejudices, be independent, interest yourself in politics, and read the newspapers.

  Bernard Baruch

  Success, Jobs, Independent

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• Is there such thing as a cheerful pessimist? That's what I am.

  Charlie Munger

  Pessimist

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• The solemnity of the annual Nobel ceremonies in Stockholm with the cheerful bad taste of the grand opening of a shopping center in Los Angeles.

  Vincent Canby

  Shopping, Taste, Los Angeles

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• Always keep the mind cheerful. Everyone will die once. Cowards suffer the pangs of death again and again, solely due to the fear in their own minds.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Mind, Suffering

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.4554, Manonmani Publishers

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• A cheerful demeanor makes brighter the day; as the sun, chasing darkness and sorrow away.

  Wes Fesler

  Darkness, Sorrow, Sun

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• The cheerful loser is the winner.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Loss, Losing, Loser

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• We who are quotatious are never truly alone, but always hear the cheerful flow of remarks made by dead writers so much more intelligent than we.

  Joseph Epstein

  Intelligent, Flow, Made

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• You wonderful girls, dress modestly and keep yourselves physically clean. Be cheerful and happy. Be positive about life. Then the Holy Spirit will cause you to be more beautiful and attractive. And when a faithful priesthood bearer comes to carry you away on his white horse-which might be an '84 Ford-to the temple, you will be prepared in every way.'

  F. Melvin Hammond

  Beautiful, Girl, Horse

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• If your best friend's feeling tearful,
  Try not to be too cheerful.
  Just let her fill your ear full
  Of sad tales by the score.
  And when she is through,
  She'll feel as good as.

  Beatrice Schenk de Regniers

  Friendship, Blue, Advice

  "Week in the Life of Best Friends".

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• The voice is always in my head. In fact I aspire to be more like Mario. What could be better than rescuing and falling in love with a princess, right? Someone who faces every challenge in life with a cheerful Wahoo! In London a bike messenger stopped me and said ‘You’re the bloke who does Mario’ on an escalator. So naturally I go ‘Wahooooo’ all the way up the stairs.

  Charles Martinet

  Falling In Love, Princess, Voice

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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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• Thus with the year Seasons return; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me; from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of Nature's works, to me expung'd and raz'd, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.

  John Milton

  Summer, Sweet, Book

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 3, l. 37

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• Happiness is the death of the ego. If you want to remain a separate entity from existence as almost everybody is trying to do, you will be afraid of being blissful, cheerful. You will feel guilty in being blissful. You will feel suicidal because you are committing suicide on the psychological level, on the level of the ego.

  Rajneesh

  Suicide, Suicidal, Ego

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• Oft in the stilly night, Ere slumber's chain has bound me, Fond memory brings the light Of other days around me; The smiles, the tears, Of boyhood's years, The words of love then spoken; The eyes that shone Now dimmed and gone, The cheerful hearts now broken.

  Charles Lamb

  Love, Memories, Heart

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

  Ken Cohen

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• I am glad to think I am not bound to make the world go right, but only to discover and to do, with cheerful heart, the work that God appoints.

  Jean Ingelow

  Heart, Thinking, World

  Jean Ingelow (1874). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.227

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• If you want to become a concert pianist, do it every day. You want to be a writer, do it every day. You want to become depressed, think depressing thoughts every day. You want to become an optimist, think a cheerful thought every day. Do it every day.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Depressing, Thinking, Want

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• The person who gives with a smile is the best giver because God loves a cheerful giver.

  Mother Teresa

  Thoughtful, Giving, God Love

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• The charming aspect of Christmas is the fact that it expresses good will in a cheerful, happy, benevolent, non-sacrificial way. One says: “Merry Christmas”-not “Weep and Repent.” And the good will is expressed in a material, earthly form-by giving presents to one's friends, or by sending them cards in token of remembrance . . . .

  Ayn Rand

  Happiness, Happy, Friends

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.91, Penguin

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