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• She was bedridden falling a fall which broke her hip. X-rays showed that she had cancer of the colon which had already spreed. To my surprise I found her cheerful and free of pain, perhaps because of the small doses of morphine she was being given. She was surrounded by neighbours and friends who congregated at her bedside day and night. In this cosy, noisy, gregarious world of the "all-chinese" sickbed, so different from the stark, sterile solitude of the American hospital room, her life had assumed the astounding quality of a continuous farewell party.

  Adeline Yen Mah

  Pain, Cancer, Farewell

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• What do we measure when we measure time? The gloomy answer from Hawking, one of our most implacably cheerful scientists, is that we measure entropy. We measure changes and those changes are all for the worse. We measure increasing disorder. Life is hard, says science, and constancy is the greatest of miracles.

  David Quammen

  Life Is Hard, Miracle, Answers

  David Quammen (2012). “Wild Thoughts from Wild Places”, p.251, Simon and Schuster

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• We all stood and gathered our backpacks and I looked at the floor around my chair to make sure I hadn’t dropped anything. I was terrified of unwittingly leaving behind a scrap of paper on which were written all my private desires and humiliations. The fact that no such scrap of paper existed, that I did not even keep a diary or write letters except bland, earnest, falsely cheerful ones to my family (We lost to St. Francis in soccer, but I think we’ll win our game this Saturday; we are working on self-portraits in art class, and the hardest part for me is the nose) never decreased my fear.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Soccer, Art, Writing

  Curtis Sittenfeld (2005). “Prep: a novel”

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• The destructive character knows only one watchword: make room. And only one activity: clearing away. The destructive character is young and cheerful. For destroying rejuvenates, because it clears away the traces of our own age; it cheers, because everything cleared away means to the destroyer a complete reduction, indeed a rooting out, of his own condition.

  Walter Benjamin

  Character, Age, Rooms

  "Selected Writings: 1927-1934".

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• Pope Francis has helped me to focus once again on the joy in my pastoral ministry. He has challenged me genuinely to believe that the Gospel is and should be the source of the church's joy. His own approachable, cheerful, and hopeful style in exercising the papacy reminds me that shepherds must exude joy or they will fail to lead anyone else to discover it.

  Wilton Daniel Gregory

  Believe, Exercise, Hopeful

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• Each of us, famous or infamous, is a role model for somebody, and if we aren't, we should behave as though we are -- cheerful, kind, loving, courteous. Because you can be sure someone is watching and taking deliberate and diligent notes.

  Maya Angelou

  Role Models, Roles, Kind

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• Since God has given me a cheerful heart, He will forgive me for serving Him cheerfully.

  Joseph Haydn

  Heart, Forgive Me, Forgiving

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• Have you noticed that the astronomers and mathematicians are much the most cheerful people of the lot? I suppose that perpetually contemplating things on so vast a scale makes them feel either that it doesn't matter a hoot anyway, or that anything so large and elaborate must have some sense in it somewhere.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  People, Matter, Astronomers

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• Being organized will give you more free time, contribute to a cheerful nature, and add to the peace and security of your home.

  Deniece Schofield

  Home, Giving, Add

  Deniece Schofield (1994). “Confessions of an Organized Homemaker: The Secrets of Uncluttering Your Home and Taking Control of Your Life”, Betterway Books

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• Cheerful poor is rich with a smile, sulky rich is poor with a bullion of gold.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Gold, Sulky, Rich

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• I think that people like the idea that fans are sort of slightly eccentric and strange, but generally I've just found them very creative and warm and cheerful.

  Peter Capaldi

  Thinking, Ideas, People

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• There is nothing sadder than the cheerful letters of the dead, expressing hopes that were never fulfilled, ambitions that were never achieved, dreams cut off before they could come to fruition.

  Barbara Mertz

  Dream, Ambition, Cutting

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• Just do your best to keep yourself in balance. One of the first things that causes Energy misalignment, is asking or demanding too much of yourself in terms of time and effort. In other words, you just cannot burn the candle at both ends, so that you are physically tired, and then expect yourself to have a cheerful attitude. So, the rule of thumb has to be: "I'm going to be very, very, very happy, and then do everything I have time to do after that.

  Esther Hicks

  Attitude, Healing, Tired

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• I want to feel myself part of things, of the great drift and swirl: not cut off, missing things, like being sent to bed early as a child, the blinds being drawn while the sun and cheerful voices came through the chink from the garden.

  Marion Milner

  Children, Cutting, Garden

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• O pusillanimous Heart, be comforted
  And, like a cheerful traveller, take the road
  Singing beside the hedge.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Heart, Singing, Traveller

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.84

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• Whatever else you do or forbear, impose upon yourself the task of happiness; and now and then abandon yourself to the joy of laughter. And however much you condemn the evil in the world, remember that the world is not all evil; that somewhere children are at play, as you yourself in the old days; that women still find joy in the stalwart hearts of men; And that men, treading with restless feet their many paths, may yet find refuge from the storms of the world in the cheerful house of love.

  Max Ehrmann

  Laughter, Children, Heart

  Max Ehrmann (2017). “The Desiderata of Happiness”, p.7, Souvenir Press Ltd

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• Life is very difficult and we owe it to our fellow human beings to be as cheerful as we can.

  Ninian Smart

  Life Is, Difficult, Humans

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• On a throne at the center of a sense of humor sits a capacity for irony. All wit rests on a cheerful awareness of life's incongruities. It is a gentling awareness, and no politician without it should be allowed near power.

  George Will

  Thrones, Irony, Sense Of Humor

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• Nor love, not honor, wealth nor power, can give the heart a cheerful hour when health is lost. Be timely wise; With health all taste of pleasure flies.

  John Gay

  Wise, Heart, Giving

  John Gay (1926). “The Poetical Works of John Gay: Including 'Polly', 'The Beggar's Opera' and Selections from the Other Dramatic Work”

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• The kitchen was bright, cheerful yellow, the walls decorated with framed chalk and pencil sketches Simon and Rebecca had done in grade school. Rebecca had some drawing talent, you could tell, but Simon's sketches of people all looked like parking meters with tufts of hair.

  Cassandra Clare

  Wall, School, Hair

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.487, Simon and Schuster

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• The gates of Hell are open night and day; smooth the descent, and easy is the way: but, to return, and view the cheerful skies; in this, the task and mighty labor lies.

  Virgil

  Lying, Night, Views

  Virgil (2015). “The Aeneid: "Illustrated"”, p.176, eKitap Projesi

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• What a new face courage puts on everything. - Ralph Waldo Emerson To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Wisdom, Years, Hopeful

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• Please, trust me, I most definitely can be cheerful. I can be amiable. Agreeable. Affable. And that's only the A's. Just don't ask me to be nice. Nice has nothing to do with me.

  Markus Zusak

  Nice, Trust Me, Ask Me

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.16, RH Childrens Books

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• Who else is going?" I asked. He shrugged. "Just you and me." My mood promptly shot up past 'cheerful' and went straight to 'estatic.' Me and Dimitri. Alone. In a car. This might very well be worth a surprise test. "How far is it?" Silently, I begged for it to be a really long drive. Like, one that would take a week. And would involve us staying overnight in luxury hotels. Maybe we'd get stranded in a snowbank, and only body heat would keep us alive. "Five hours" "Oh." A bit less than I'd hoped for. Still, five hours was better than nothing. It didn't rule out the snowbank possibility, either.

  Richelle Mead

  Past, Luxury, Car

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• Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced. . . . It is that absence of being able to envisage that you will ever be cheerful again. The absence of hope. That very deadened feeling, which is so very different from feeling sad. Sad hurts but it's a healthy feeling. It is a necessary thing to feel. Depression is very different.

  J. K. Rowling

  Sad, Depression, Hurt

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