Cheerful Quotes - Page 8

• I think sometimes people think cheerful is a synonym for dumb, so no one is ever cheerful.

  Mindy Kaling

  Thinking, People, Dumb

  Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)”, p.168, Three Rivers Press

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• And feeling clever, I've always thought, is just a sigh away from being cheerful.

  Ian Mcewan

  Clever, Feelings, Sigh

  FaceBook post by Ian McEwan from Jan 16, 2013

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• Gabe brings home a chicken and Tommy Falk for dinner. Truth be told, I'm not unhappy to see any of them. Gabe, because it's been so long since we've had dinner with him; the chicken because it's not beans; and Tommy Falk because his presence makes Gabe cheerful and goofy.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Home, Long, Unhappy

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• I waved to everybody. Some of them even waved back. They knew me, had seen me go by before, always cheerful, a big hello for everybody. He was such a nice man. Very friendly. I can’t believe he did those horrible things . . .

  Jeff Lindsay

  Nice, Believe, Men

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Darkly Dreaming Dexter”, p.32, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• The Lord loveth a cheerful giver. He also accepteth from a grouch.

  Catherine Hall

  Making A Difference, Charity, Helping

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• A deliberate attitude that you have to hold in your mind as one of the basic rules of yoga is to remain even-minded and cheerful.

  Goswami Kriyananda

  Happiness, Attitude, Yoga

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• I've've seen some people like this that no matter what happens they've got something cheerful to feel about it. It's not always easy, but if we do it as a deliberate sward of battle rather then thinking 'Well, I'm not really feeling that way and therefore I shouldn't say that I am'. No! Make yourself that way!

  Goswami Kriyananda

  Happiness, Thinking, People

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• Even-minded and cheerful. When things go bad, you'll find that the same kind of attitude comes to you naturally.

  Goswami Kriyananda

  Happiness, Attitude, Kind

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• The real sign of His blessings is if you can have more and more happiness inside. Learn always to be happy; to be happy with the happiness of God. Even- minded and cheerful. This is the fastest route to divine bliss.

  Goswami Kriyananda

  Happiness, Real, Blessing

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• Now is the only time. How we relate to it creates the future. In other words, if we're going to be more cheerful in the future, it's because of our aspiration and exertion to be cheerful in the present. What we do accumulates; the future is the result of what we do right now.

  Pema Chodron

  Moments, Results, Aspiration

  "Tea with Pema Chordon in the Mayan Jungle". Interview with Karl Saliter, www.elephantjournal.com. May 11, 2012.

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• What wonders does not wine! It discloses secrets; ratifies and confirms our hopes; thrusts the coward forth to battle; eases the anxious mind of its burden; instructs in arts. Whom has not a cheerful glass made eloquent! Whom not quite free and easy from pinching poverty!

  Horace

  Art, Wine, Glasses

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• This is the twilight of the banks. It would be a more cheerful spectacle if we could envision the dawn of the institutions that will replace them

  Martin Mayer

  Twilight, Would Be, Banking

  Martin Mayer (1985). “The money bazaars: understanding the banking revolution around us”, Signet

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• Keep company with the more cheerful sort of the Godly; there is no mirth like the mirth of believers.

  Richard Baxter

  Godly, Mirth, Theologian

  Richard Baxter, William Orme (1830). “The Practical Works of the Rev. Richard Baxter, with a Life of the Author, and a Critical Examination of His Writings”, p.24

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• To the last day of your life, be positive; try to be cheerful. Even at the very end, don't think, "I am finished." Instead of pitying yourself, you should be thinking, "O ye who are left on this desolate shore still to mourn and deplore, it is I who pity you." Death will not give you any trouble if you have a clear conscience; and if you go with this thought: "Lord, I am in Thy hands."

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Death, Thinking, Hands

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• Wishing you happiness always! Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons. . . . . Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be. And whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul. With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.

  Max Ehrmann

  Life, Beautiful, Dream

  "Desiderata" (1927).

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• The miserable person is easily enslaved.The cheerful person,the blissful person,cannot be enslaved.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Miserable Person, Persons

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• Too cheerful a morality is a loose morality; it is appropriate only to decadent peoples and is found only among them.

  Emile Durkheim

  Morality, Found, Appropriate

  Emile Durkheim (2005). “Suicide: A Study in Sociology”, p.333, Routledge

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• Tis the privilege of Art Thus to play its cheerful part, Man on earth to acclimate And bend the exile to his fate.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Fate, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Essays (Annotated Edition)”, p.178, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The future seems a little gloomy! Go to bed early, sleep well, eat moderately at breakfast; the future looks brighter. The world's outlook may not have changed, but our capacity for dealing with it has. Happiness, or unhappiness, depends to some extent on external conditions, but also, and in most cases chiefly, on our own physical and mental powers. Some people would be discontented in Paradise, others ... are cheerful in a graveyard.

  Arthur Lynch

  Sleep, Optimism, People

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• My life is nothing but pressure. All pressure. This pressure is like a heaviness. It's always on top of me, this heaviness. It's always there since I'm a kid. Other people wake up in the morning, 'A new day! Ah, up and at 'em!' I wake up, the heaviness is waiting for me nice. Sometimes I even talk to it. I say [adopts cheerful voice] 'Hi, heaviness!' and the heaviness looks back at me, [in an ominous growl] 'Today you're gonna get it good. You'll be drinking early today.'

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Morning, Nice, Drinking

  "Rodney Dangerfield's It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime Of No Respect But Plenty Of Sex And Drugs" by Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. April 28, 2011.

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• Once the minority of House and Senate are comfortable in their minority status, they will have no problem socializing with the Republicans. Any farmer will tell you that certain animals run around and are unpleasant, but when they've been fixed, then they are happy and sedate. They are contented and cheerful. They don't go around peeing on the furniture and such.

  Grover Norquist

  Running, Animal, House

  "Feingold Rides the Zeitgeist Over Eleanor Clift" by Digby, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 25, 2011.

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• The thousand mysteries around us would not trouble but interest us, if only we had cheerful, healthy hearts.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Hate, Health

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• A willing, cheerful worker, with his heart in his job, will turn out more work and more satisfactory work in 44 hours than an unwilling worker, dissatisfied with his conditions, will turn out in 54 hours. It is good business, therefore, for every employer to go as far as he possibly can in reaching a schedule agreeable to his people.

  B. C. Forbes

  Jobs, Business, Heart

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• In Utopia, where every man has a right to everything, they all know that if care is taken to keep the public stores full, no private man can want anything; for among them there is no unequal distribution, so that no man is poor, none in necessity; and though no man has anything, yet they are all rich; for what can make a man so rich as to lead a serene and cheerful life, free from anxieties.

  Thomas More

  Taken, Men, Anxiety

  Thomas More (2016). “Utopia”, p.103, BoD – Books on Demand

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• To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take a cheerful view of their capacity, their conduct, or their position; and a robust candor never waited to be asked for its opinion.

  George Eliot

  Opportunity, Views, Use

  George Eliot (2016). “Middlemarch”, p.683, Xist Publishing

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