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• By the time they were pulling into the parking lot of the A&P, the mood was fading, the moment gone. Amy could feel it go. Perhaps it was nothing more than the two doughnuts expanding in her stomach full of milk, but Amy felt a heaviness begin, a familiar turning of some inward tide. As they drove over the bridge the sun seemed to move from a cheerful daytime yellow to an early-evening gold; painful how the gold light hit the riverbanks, rich and sorrowful, drawing from Amy some longing, a craving for joy.

  Elizabeth Strout

  Moving, Two, Yellow

  Elizabeth Strout (2003). “Amy and Isabelle: A Novel”, p.56, Vintage

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• Counting our blessings can transform melancholy into cheerful mass; laughter and joy are expressions of praise and thanksgiving for life's glories. When looking at the glass that symbolizes our life, we can view it as half full or half empty. The choice is ours... The more joyful we are, the more attractive we become. When we feel gratitude for our experiences, it becomes easier to see the good that always exists. When we give a smile to someone else, we are likely to receive one in return, and that smile reflects a happy heart that is open and receptive to what the good life has in store.

  John Templeton

  Gratitude, Good Life, Laughter

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• Everyone, including you, just naturally feels better when exposed to a cheerful, optimistic individual, regardless of the nature or length of the contact.

  Zig Ziglar

  Optimistic, Feel Better, Individual

  Zig Ziglar (2010). “See You at the Top”, p.85, Pelican Publishing

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• A goodly portly man, i' faith, and a corpulent; of a cheerful look, a pleasing eye, and a most noble carriage; and, as I think, his age some fifty, or, by'r Lady, inclining to threescore; and now I remember me, his name is Falstaff.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Men, Thinking

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Second Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V”, p.308, BookCaps Study Guides

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• A gathering of Democrats is more sweaty, disorderly, offhand, and rowdy than a gathering of Republicans; it is also likely to be more cheerful, imaginative, tolerant of dissent, and skillful at the game of give-and-take. A gathering of Republicans is more respectable, sober, purposeful, and businesslike than a gathering of Democrats; it is also likely to be more self-righteous, pompous, cut-and-dried, and just plain boring.

  Clinton Rossiter

  Cutting, Self, Games

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• My god is a cheerful, pleasant, lively, and good-natured being.

  Heber C. Kimball

  Lively, Pleasant, Jovial

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• Joy, not grit, is the hallmark of holy obedience. We need to be light-hearted in what we do to avoid taking ourselves too seriously. It is a cheerful revolt against self and pride.

  Richard J. Foster

  Pride, Light, Self

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• He who believes in goodness has the essence of all faith. He is a man of cheerful yesterdays and confident to-morrows.

  James Freeman Clarke

  Believe, Men, Essence

  James Freeman Clarke (1880). “Self-culture, lectures”

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• Be cheerful . Strive to be happy.

  Max Ehrmann

  Strive

  Max Ehrmann (2003). “Desiderata: Words for Life”, p.43, Scholastic Inc.

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• The first sign that you are becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful. When a man is gloomy, that may be dyspepsia, but it is not religion. Misery is caused by sin, and by no other cause. What business have you with clouded faces? It is terrible. If you have a clouded face, do not go out that day, shut yourself up in your room. What right have you to carry this disease out into the world?

  Swami Vivekananda

  Religious, Men, Rooms

  Swami Vivekananda (2011). “The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali”, p.59, Duncan Baird Publishers

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• When you look at the whole package of energy, the food you eat should match the story you want to live, which means: as fresh as possible, without dullness, repetition, and routine. As colorful as possible, giving delight to the eyes; food is a rainbow brought down to earth. As cheerful as possible, maximizing moments of happiness and pleasure.

  Deepak Chopra

  Mean, Eye, Rainbow

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• This is a beautiful time of year with spring beginning to burst forth in many parts of the world, bringing all of its colors, scents, and cheerful sounds. The miracle of the changing seasons, with the reawakening and rebirth in nature, inspires feelings of love and reverence within us for God's marvelous, creative handiwork.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Beautiful, Nature, Spring

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• It is the color closest to light. In its utmost purity it always implies the nature of brightness and has a cheerful, serene, gently stimulating character. Hence, experience teaches us that yellow makes a thoroughly warm and comforting impression.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Character, Light, Color

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• Overly positive, horrendously cheerful people can make a depressed person even more depressed. In fact, perhaps the least helpful thing one can say to a depressed person is, "Cheer up!"

  Harold H. Bloomfield

  Depression, Cheer, Depressed Person

  Harold H. Bloomfield, Peter McWilliams (1996). “How to Heal Depression”, Mary Book / Prelude Pr

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• Liza poured thick batter from a pitcher onto a soapstone griddle. The hot cakes rose like little hassocks, and small volcanoes formed and erupted on them until they were ready to be turned. A cheerful brown, they were, with tracings of darker brown. And the kitchen was full of the good sweet smell of them.

  John Steinbeck

  Sweet, Food, Volcanoes

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• Be cheerful in all that you do. Live joyfully. Live happily.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• One of the weaknesses of the company now is it is a bit cheap and cheerful and overly nasty, and that reflects my personality.

  Michael O'Leary

  Personality, Weakness, Nasty

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• Life has, indeed, many ills, but the mind that views every object in its most cheering aspect, and every doubtful dispensation as replete with latent good, bears within itself a powerful and perpetual antidote. The gloomy soul aggravates misfortune, while a cheerful smile often dispels those mists that portend a storm.

  Lydia Sigourney

  Gratitude, Cheer, Powerful

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• Holy love has a way of consuming some. This is what is meant by the one who said, 'You have ravished our hearts' (Sg. Of Sgs. 4:9). And it makes others bright and overjoyed. In this regard it has been said: 'My heart was full of trust and I was helped, and my flesh has revived' (Ps. 27:7). For when the heart is cheerful, the face beams (cf. Prov. 15:13), and a man flooded with the love of God reveals in his body, as if in a mirror, the splendor of his soul, a glory like that of Moses when he came face to face with God (cf. Ex. 34:29-35).

  John Climacus

  Christian, Heart, Men

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• Worthless is the charity of the man who bestows it unwillingly, because material charity is not his, but God's gift, while only the disposition of the heart belongs to the man. This is why many charities prove almost worthless, for they were bestowed unwillingly, grudgingly, without respect for the person of our neighbor. So also the hospitality of many persons proves worthless because of their hypocritical vain-glorious behavior to their guests. Let us offer our sacrifices upon the altar of love to our neighbor, with heart-felt affection: 'for God loves a cheerful giver'

  John of Kronstadt

  Christian, Heart, Sacrifice

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• Laughter is easier minute by minute, spilled with prodigality, tipped out at a cheerful word.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Laughter, Minutes, Easier

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2016). “(The Great Gatsby)”, p.27, F. Scott Fitzgerald

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• Speak tenderly; let there be kindness in your face, in your eyes, in your smile, in the warmth of your greeting. Always have a cheerful smile. Don't only give your care, but give your heart as well.

  Mother Teresa

  Kindness, Eye, Heart

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• Having still in my recollection so many excellent men, to whose grandfathers, upon the same spots, my grandfather had yielded cheerful obedience and reverence, it is not without sincere sorrow that I have beheld many of the sons of these men driven from their fathers' mansions, or holding them as little better than tenants or stewards, while the swarms of Placemen, Pensioners, Contractors, and Nabobs... have usurped a large part of the soil.

  William Cobbett

  Father, Son, Men

  Political Register, December 21, 1816.

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• I was broken in body, soul, and spirit. My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed, the cheerful spark that lingered about my eye died; the dark night of slavery closed in upon me; and behold a man transformed into a brute!

  Frederick Douglass

  Eye, Dark, Night

  Frederick Douglass (2016). “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave”, p.60, Xist Publishing

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• We are growing from a cheerful small town where everyone waves off their front porch to the subway of New York City where everyone rushes by. How do you preserve the culture that has worked so well?

  Jimmy Wales

  New York, Cities, Culture

  "Jimmy Wales: Digital Champion of Free Speech" by Juliette Garside, www.theguardian.com. August 03, 2014.

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