Cheerful Quotes - Page 11

• A man too careful of danger liveth in continual torment, But a cheerful expecter of the best hath a fountain of joy within him.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Men, Joy, Fountain

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1860). “Tupper's Complete Poetical Works: Containing "Proverbial Philosophy," "A Thousand Lines," "Hactenus," "Geraldine," and "Miscellaneous Poems"”, p.15

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• It’s admirable, what you do, what she does, but to me animal-welfare people are a bit like Christians of a certain kind. Everyone is so cheerful and well-intentioned that after a while you itch to go off and do some raping and pillaging. Or to kick a cat.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Christian, Cat, Animal

  J. M. Coetzee (1999). “Disgrâce”, Random House (UK)

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• It was just that she had the need to tell him something honest, something honest and unhappy, because cheerful lies tonight were too depressing and too sharp, turning in on her like pins

  Kristin Cashore

  Depressing, Lying, Unhappy

  Kristin Cashore (2012). “Bitterblue”, p.73, Penguin

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

  Rajneesh

  Life, Miserable Person, Persons

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• 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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• Remain cheerful, For nothing destructive can pierce through The solid wall of cheerfulness.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Wall, Pierce, Destructive

  Sri Chinmoy (1997). “The Wings of Joy: Finding Your Path to Inner Peace”, p.136, Simon and Schuster

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• Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Eye, Color, Sea

  Ernest Hemingway (1995). “The old man and the sea”, p.5, Hueber Verlag

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• You changed the subject." "From what?" "The empty-headed girls who think you're sexy." "You know." "Know what?" "That I only have eyes for you." Laila swooned inside. She tried to read his face but was met by a look that was indecipherable: the cheerful, cretinous grin at odds with the narrow, half desperate look in his eyes. A clever look, calculated to fall precisely at the midpoint between mockery and sincerity

  Khaled Hosseini

  Girl, Sexy, Clever

  Khaled Hosseini (2010). “The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set”, p.278, A&C Black

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• Even though I don't ask, Plutarch gives me cheerful updates on the phone like "Good news, Katniss! I think we've almost got him convinced you're not a mutt!" Or "Today he was allowed to feed himself pudding!

  Suzanne Collins

  Thinking, Phones, Katniss

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• Well, it seems to me that there are books that tell stories, and then there are books that tell truths... The first kind, they show you life like you want it to be. With villains getting what they deserve and the hero seeing what a fool he's been and marrying the heroine and happy endings and all that... But the second kind, they show you life more like it is... The first kind makes you cheerful and contented, but the second kind shakes you up.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Book, Hero, Stories

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• Bad day?" "Every day is a bad day here." "Eh, this place isnt't so terrible." "How are you always cheerful?" "Alcohol," he says with a sideways grin.

  Pittacus Lore

  Bad Day, Alcohol, Sideways

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• So what do you wear to dump somebody?" she asked me, twirling a lock of hair around one finger. "Black, for mourning? Or something cheerful and colorful, to distract them from their pain? Or maybe you wear some sort of camouflage, something that will help you disappear quickly in case they don't take it well.

  Sarah Dessen

  Pain, Hair, Mourning

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.22, Penguin

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• You can say anything with a Post-It. I’m not entirely sure why that is. Maybe the friendliness of the squares makes it easier. A square is nicely compact and less intimidating than a full page. And they come in cheerful colors. Non-white paper is kind of inherently festive. Or maybe paper that sticks feels more important than paper that can blow away. (Though you can move them, if you need to put them somewhere else.) They might not be as lasting as words carved in stone, but Post-It thoughts will stay. For awhile, at least.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Moving, Blow, Squares

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• Well, we can ride together for a while longer. The highway south is farther along this way. I'll be glad of some cheerful company." "First time anyone's said that about me," Halt replied.

  John Flanagan

  Together, Way, Firsts

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• I can't deceive myself out of the bare stark realization that no matter how enthusiastic you are, no matter how sure that character is fate, nothing is real, past or future, when you are alone in your room with the clock ticking loudly into the false cheerful brilliance of the electric light. And if you have no past or future which, after all, is all that the present is made of, why then you may as well dispose of the empty shell of present and commit suicide.

  Sylvia Plath

  Suicide, Real, Character

  "The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath".

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• She had taken him for granted, she thought with surprise and shame, watching the flickering candlelight. She had assumed his kindness was so natural and so innate, she had never asked herself whether it cost him any effort. Any effort to stand between Will and the world, protecting each of them from the other. Any effort to accept the loss of his family with equanimity. Any effort to remain cheerful and calm in the face of his own dying.

  Cassandra Clare

  Kindness, Taken, Loss

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.644, Simon and Schuster

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