Cheerful Quotes - Page 5

• The banjo is such a happy instrument--you can't play a sad song on the banjo - it always comes out so cheerful.

  Steve Martin

  Funny, Song, Humor

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• Even if we can't be happy, we must always be cheerful.

  Irving Kristol

  Happiness, Gratitude, Appreciation

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• Many merry Christmases, many happy New Years. Unbroken friendships, great accumulations of cheerful recollections and affections on earth, and heaven for us all.

  Charles Dickens

  Friendship, Christmas, New Year

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• Humility, after the first shock, is cheerful virtue.

  C. S. Lewis

  Humility, Firsts, Virtue

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• It is the Lord's Day, and I do believe that cheerful hearts and faces are not unpleasant in His sight.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Believe, Heart, Sight

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (2005). “The Story of a Bad Boy”, p.57, 1st World Publishing

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• A cheerful life is what the Muses love. A soaring spirit is their prime delight.

  William Wordsworth

  Delight, Spirit, Life Is

  William Wordsworth (1848). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England”, p.186

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• One can imagine a sane, healthy, cheerful human society based on no more than the principles of common sense, as validated each day by work, play, and living experience. But this remains the most utopian and fantastic of ideals.

  Edward Abbey

  Play, Common Sense, Healthy

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.21, RosettaBooks

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• 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.

  Charles Lamb

  Zion, Voice, Bells

  Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb (1838). “The Poetical Works of Charles Lamb”, p.70

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• Nah, you always look good. As for me … well, it's hard to explain. The auras are getting to me. There's so much sorrow around here. You can't even begin to understand. It radiates from everyone on a spiritual level. It's overwhelming. It makes your dark aura downright cheerful.

  Richelle Mead

  Spiritual, Dark, Sorrow

  Richelle Mead (2008). “Shadow Kiss: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.223, Penguin

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• If Melissa Miller were an artist, she would have painted the world in vicious streaks of red. Nothing like Picasso's rose period, all soft and cheerful and so optimistic that it made you want to puke. Missy's red phase would have been brutal and bright enough to cut your eyes. Missy's art would have been honest.

  Jackie Morse Kessler

  Art, Eye, Optimistic

  Jackie Morse Kessler (2011). “Rage”, p.9, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  Erica Jong

  Terrified, Envied, My Friends

  Erica Jong (2013). “Fear of Flying: 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.233, Open Road Media

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• Let the soul be assured that somewhere in the universe it should rejoin its friend, and it would be content and cheerful alone for a thousand years.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Years, Soul, Would Be

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.42, Coyote Canyon Press

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• Being a cheerful hobbit, he had not needed hope, as long as despair could be postponed. (Of Sam)

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Long, Despair, Needed

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.436, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• …a cheerful black shadow reared up behind him as he spoke, thundering a happy challenge to my Dark Passenger, which slid forward and bellowed back.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Dark, Challenges, Black

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Dearly Devoted Dexter”, p.285, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• Just once, I want to meet the villain in a cheerful, brightly lit room. Possibly one with kittens.

  Mira Grant

  Want, Rooms, Villain

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• They don’t need walls and water to keep the prisoners in, not when they’re trapped inside their own heads, incapable of a single cheerful thought. Most go mad within weeks - Lupin

  J. K. Rowling

  Wall, Mad, Water

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• Rising from the dead? Glowing at sunrise? What did that make him, the god of cheerful mornings and macabre surprises?

  N.K. Jemisin

  Morning, Glowing, Sunrise

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• The people are immensely likable— cheerful, extrovert, quick-witted, and unfailingly obliging. Their cities are safe and clean and nearly always built on water. They have a society that is prosperous, well ordered, and instinctively egalitarian. The food is excellent. The beer is cold. The sun nearly always shines. There is coffee on every corner. Life doesn't get much better than this.

  Bill Bryson

  Coffee, Beer, Cities

  Bill Bryson (2001). “In a Sunburned Country”, Broadway

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• How am I doing so far?" she asked, forcing a cheerful lightness into her voice. "You're doing very well," Nick's lazy voice mocked. "I'm half convinced that I'm invisible.

  Judith McNaught

  Voice, Lazy, Half

  Judith McNaught (2016). “Double Standards”, p.148, Simon and Schuster

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• Don’t fail through defects of temper and over-sensitiveness at moments of trial. One of the great helps to success is to be cheerful; to go to work with a full sense of life; to be determined to put hindrances out of the way; to prevail over them and to get the mastery. Above all things else, be cheerful; there is no beatitude for the despairing.

  Amelia Barr

  Mastery, Trials, Way

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• Lukewarm people give money to charity and to the church....as long as it doesn't impinge on their standard of living. If they have a little extra and it is easy and safe to give, they do so. After all, God loves a cheerful giver, right?

  Francis Chan

  Long, People, Giving

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.47, David C Cook

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• It's sad if people think that's (homemaking) a dull existance, [but] you can't just buy an apartment and furnish it and walk away. It's the flowers you choose, the music you play, the smile you have waiting. I want it to be gay and cheerful, a haven in this troubled world. I don't want my husband and children to come home and find a rattled woman. Our era is already rattled enough, isn't it?

  Audrey Hepburn

  Children, Husband, Flower

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• 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.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Hurt, Fake, Looks

  Ellen Hopkins (2014). “Tilt”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• Being cheerful and affable with people is by itself half of wisdom.

  Ja'far al-Sadiq

  Happiness, People, Half

  "Bihārul Anwār". Book by Majlisi, vol.76, p. 60, d. 1110/1698.

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• I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were felt by the whole human race, there would not be one cheerful face left on earth.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Depression, Men, Race

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