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• To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Birthday, Time, Years

  Letter to Julia Ward Howe on her 70th birthday, 27 May (1889)

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• Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.

  William Feather

  Good Morning, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

  William Feather (1949). “The Business of Life”

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• An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.

  Thomas Fuller

  Happiness, Sad, God

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 49, 1895.

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• Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

  Joseph Addison

  Clouds, Break Through, Serenity

  'The Spectator' no. 381, 17 May 1712

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• You can't reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height.

  Stephen Fry

  Height, Six, Reason

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• A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Mistake, Creativity, Science

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.110

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• It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.

  Francis of Assisi

  God, Faith, Inspiration

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• Whatever happens, I will not let my cheerfulness be disturbed. Being unhappy won't get me anywhere and will dissipate all my goodness. Why be unhappy about something if you can change it? And if you can't, how will being unhappy help?

  Shantideva

  Psychics, Empowerment, Unhappy

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• Cheerfulness is among the most laudable virtues. It gains you the good will and friendship of others. It blesses those who practice it and those upon whom it is bestowed.

  B. C. Forbes

  Practice, Gains, Virtue

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• Inner sunshine warms not only the heart of the owner, but all who come in contact with it.

  James Thomas Fields

  Summer, Heart, Sunshine

  James Thomas Fields (1881). “Underbrush”

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• [Grateful] Cheerfulness is health; its opposite, [ungrateful] melancholy, is disease.

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  Gratitude, Grateful, Opposites

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• One must never have spared oneself, one must have acquired hardness as a habit to be cheerful and in good spirits in the midst of nothing but hard truths.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Cheerful, Spirit, Habit

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.720, Modern Library

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• Manage through the uncertainties. Practice appropriate actions and participate in healthy choices. Value and celebrate the loyalty of the individuals around you: celebrate their competencies and successes, as well as your own. Build up your circle and reinforce it at every opportunity.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Loyalty, Opportunity, Practice

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• Nature intended you to be the fountain-spring of cheerfulness and social life, and not the mountain of despair and melancholy.

  Arthur Helps

  Spring, Despair, Mountain

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• Be cheerful [and grateful for the good that you have]: do not brood over fond hopes unrealized until a chain is fastened on each thought and wound around the heart. Nature intended you to be the fountain-spring of cheerfulness and social life, and not the mountain of despair and melancholy.

  Arthur Helps

  Gratitude, Spring, Grateful

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• There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Happiness, Cheerful, Charm

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• We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

  Anne Frank

  Happiness, Happy, Soulmate

  1944 Diary entry, 6 Jul.

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• Fake feeling good.... You're going to have to learn to fake cheerfulness. Believe it or not, eventually that effort will pay off: you'll actually start feeling happier.

  Jean Bach

  Believe, Fake, Effort

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• Happiness comes to those who are moving toward something they want very much to happen. And it almost always involves making someone else happy.

  Earl Nightingale

  Happiness, Moving, Want

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• The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendour cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate; those soft intervals of unbended amusement, in which a man shrinks to his natural dimensions, and throws aside the ornaments or disguises which he feels in privacy to be useless incumbrances, and to lose all effect when they become familiar. To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labour tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

  Samuel Johnson

  Home, Ambition, Men

  Samuel Johnson (1787). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with His Life, and Notes on His Lives of the Poets, by Sir John Hawkins, Knt. In Eleven Volumes ...”, p.431

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• This can be one of cheerfulness or gloom because color which is so inexpensive, is what does the trick. Not color alone but color plus imaginative lighting and cleverly grouping of the furniture. You say you have an old lobby that nothing much can be done with? Oh yes it can!

  Dorothy Draper

  Color, Doe, Done

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• Yet there were times when he did love her with all the kindness she demanded, and how was she to know what were those times? Alone she raged against his cheerfulness and put herself at the mercy of her own love and longed to be free of it because it made her less than he and dependent on him. But how could she be free of chains she had put upon herself? Her soul was all tempest. The dreams she had once had of her life were dead. She was in prison in the house. And yet who was her jailer except herself?

  Pearl S. Buck

  Love, Dream, Kindness

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• Extreme cold when it first arrives seems to generate cheerfulness and sociability. For a few hours all life's dubious problems are dropped in favor of the clear and congenial task of keeping alive.

  E. B. White

  Weather, Dubious, Tasks

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• To watch the corn grow, and the blossoms set; to draw hard breath over ploughshare or spade; to read, to think, to love, to hope, to pray, — these are the things that make men happy.

  John Ruskin

  Love, Happiness, Men

  "Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin".

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• A cheerful face is nearly as good for an invalid as healthy weather.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Happiness, Weather, Healthy

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