Cheerfulness Quotes - Page 8

• Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man - yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to thee, live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Life, Gratitude, Appreciation

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book IV, (48), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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• A day so happy. Fog lifted early. I worked in the garden. Hummingbirds were stopping over honeysuckle flowers. There was no thing on earth I wanted to possess. I know no one worth my envying him.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Cheer

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• A garden is one of the few expressions of man's nature that is altogether benign.

  Nan Fairbrother

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Nature

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• A fact bobbed up from my memory, that the ancient Egyptians prescribed walking through a garden as a cure for the mad. It was a mind-altering drug we took daily.

  Paul Fleischman

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Cheer

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• I find the love of garden grows upon me as I grow older more and more. Shrubs and flowers and such small gay things, that bloom and please and fade and wither and are gone and we care not for them, are refreshing interests, in life, and if we cannot say never fading pleasures, we may say unreproved pleasures and never grieving losses.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Life, Appreciation, Gratitude

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• Among the numerous luxuries of the table...coffee may be considered as one of the most valuable. It excites cheerfulness without intoxication; and the pleasing flow of spirits which it occasions...is never followed by sadness, languor or debility.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Coffee, Sadness, Luxury

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• Prayer is the place of refuge for every worry, a foundation for cheerfulness, a source of constant happiness, a protection against sadness.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Prayer, Sadness, Worry

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• The most certain sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness; her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Wisdom, Moon, States

  "The Works of Michael de Montaigne".

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• Nothing is more beautiful than cheerfulness in an old face.

  Jean Paul

  Beautiful, Faces, Aging

  Jean Paul (1863). “Titan: A Romance. From the German of Jean Paul Richter”, p.375

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• The fire is the main comfort of the camp, whether in summer or winter, and is about as ample at one season as at another. It is as well for cheerfulness as for warmth and dryness.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Summer, Winter, Fire

  Henry David Thoreau (1873). “The Maine Woods”, p.38

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• A heart full of courage and cheerfulness needs a little danger from time to time, or the world gets unbearable.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Courage, Heart, Needs

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• The struggle ends when gratitude begins.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Gratitude, Struggle, Ends

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• Song brings of itself a cheerfulness that wakes the heart of joy.

  Euripides

  Song, Heart, Joy

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• One more royal trait properly belongs to the poet. I mean his cheerfulness, without which no man can be a poet,--for beauty is his aim. He loves virtue, not for its obligation, but for its grace; he delights in the world, in man, in woman, for the lovely light that sparkles from them. Beauty, the spirit of joy and hilarity, he sheds over the universe.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mean, Men, Light

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1987). “Representative Men: Seven Lectures”, p.123, Harvard University Press

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• The gospel of cheerfulness, I had almost said the gospel of amusement, is preached by people who lack experience to people who lack vitality. There is a vague impression that the world would be a good world if it were only happy, that it would be happy if it were amused, and that it would be amused if plenty of artificial recreation - that recreation for which we are now told every community stands responsible - were provided for its entertainment.

  Agnes Repplier

  Happiness, People, Community

  Agnes Repplier (1916). “Counter-currents”

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• Have your fun, my dear; but if you must earn your bread, try to make it sweet with cheerfulness, not bitter with the daily regret that it isn't cake.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Sweet, Fun, Attitude

  Louisa May Alcott (2000). “The Portable Louisa May Alcott”, p.446, Penguin

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• Salt is like good-humor, and nearly every thing is better for a pinch of it.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Salt, Good Humor

  Louisa May Alcott (2016). “The 'Little Women' Trilogy (Illustrated)”, p.426, ShandonPress

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• There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing. Everybody now-a-days is a father, there is father Mussolini and father Hitler and father Roosevelt and father Stalin and father Trotsky and father Blum and father Franco is just commencing now and there are ever so many more ready to be one. Fathers are depressing. England is the only country now that has not got one and so they are more cheerful there than anywhere. It is a long time now that they have not had any fathering and so their cheerfulness is increasing.

  Gertrude Stein

  Country, Depressing, Father

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• When you drop your unnecessary things, you finally can swoop and fly in vast space. It is so blue, so bright, and so nice, so airy and fresh. You can stretch your wings and breathe the air. You can do anything you want. You have experienced cheerfulness and joy, and finally the bliss of freedom occurs in you.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Freedom, Nice, Air

  Chogyam Trungpa (2013). “The Tantric Path of Indestructible Wakefulness (volume 3): The Profound Treasury of the Ocean of Dharma, Volume Three”, p.761, Shambhala Publications

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• Economy is the parent of integrity, of liberty, and of ease, and the beauteous sister of temperance, of cheerfulness and health.

  Samuel Johnson

  Integrity, Parent, Liberty

  John Hawkesworth, Samuel Johnson, Richard Bathurst, Joseph Warton (1793). “The Adventurer”, p.164

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• Happy is the man who has that in his soul which acts upon the dejected as April airs upon violet roots. Gifts from the hand are silver and gold, but the heart gives that which neither silver nor gold can buy. To be full of goodness, full of cheerfulness, full of sympathy, full of helpful hope, causes a man to carry blessings of which he is himself as unconscious as a lamp is of its own shining. Such a one moves on human life as stars move on dark seas to bewildered mariners; as the sun wheels, bringing all the seasons with him from the south.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Sympathy, Stars, Moving

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.45

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• The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendor cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate.

  Samuel Johnson

  Giving, Splendor, Hours

  Samuel Johnson (1820). “The Rambler”, p.358

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• The very first discovery of beauty strikes the mind with an inward joy, and spreads a cheerfulness and delight through all its faculties.

  Joseph Addison

  Beauty, Discovery, Joy

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1854). “The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...”, p.273

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• Much of the possibility of being cheerful comes from the faculty of throwing oneself beyond oneself.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Cheerful, Possibility, Faculty

  Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1992). “The Brownings' Correspondence: January 1845-July 1845, letters 1799-1981”

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• That game gave us a lot of confidence and the fans something to cheer for.

  Bill Vaughan

  Cheer, Games, Fans

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