there is one thing one has to have: either a soul that
is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work,
love, art, and knowledge.
Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power
of endurance -- the cheerful man will do more in the same
time, will do it ;better, will preserve it longer, than
the sad or sullen.
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered
along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
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 day-light in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
what time can be more beautiful than the one in which the finest virtues, innocent cheerfulness and indefinable longing for love constitute the sole motives of your life?
Voltaire
Thomas Carlyle
Joseph Addison
Joseph Addison
Leo Tolstoy
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