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• Even if we can't be happy, we must always be cheerful.

  Irving Kristol

  Happiness, Gratitude, Appreciation

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• Humility, after the first shock, is cheerful virtue.

  C. S. Lewis

  Humility, Firsts, Virtue

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• As it somehow always manages before the winter solstice, but never after, the early darkness was cheerful and promising, even for those who had nothing.

  Mark Helprin

  Winter, Darkness, Solstice

  Mark Helprin (2014). “A New York Winter's Tale”, p.383, Pan Macmillan

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• I have produced things that I would say were sincerely cheerful. But then I am reminded by other people that no one else would see them that way.

  Daniel Handler

  People, Way, Sincerely

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2005.

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• The mother cannot expect her daughter to understand the mysteries of housekeeping without education. She should instruct them patiently, lovingly, and make the work as agreeable as she can by her cheerful countenance and encouraging words of approval. If they fail once, twice, or thrice, censure not.

  Ellen G. White

  Daughter, Mother, Encouraging Words

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• Many merry Christmases, many happy New Years. Unbroken friendships, great accumulations of cheerful recollections and affections on earth, and heaven for us all.

  Charles Dickens

  Friendship, Christmas, New Year

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• A good mother remembers to serve fruit at breakfast, is always cheerful and never yells, manages not to project her own neuroses and inadequacies onto her children, is an active and beloved community volunteer. She remembers to make play dates, her children's clothes fit, she does art projects with them and enjoys all their games.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Love, Mother, Art

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• I am cheerful. I don't know if I'm happy. There is a difference, you know.

  Tom Robbins

  Differences, Knows, Ifs

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• I don't think you should have to try to be nice, I think most people are nice. I think being cheerful and nice is just a politeness.

  Graham Norton

  Nice, Thinking, Should Have

  "Glad to be Graham". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2001.

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• Divorced women, compared to married women, are less satisfied with their lives, which is not surprising. But they're actually more cheerful, when you look at the average mood they're in in the course of the day.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Average, Looks, Married

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• I think I'm a fun flatmate. I'm always cheerful. I go on tour with my band so it's 12 people on one bus and I feel like I'm the one who's happy in the morning. I'm not a chaotic person, but I might slack off on doing the dishes from time to time.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Morning, Fun, Thinking

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• And all this day an unaccustomed spirit lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts.

  William Shakespeare

  Spirit, Lifts, Romeo And Juliet Play

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 5, sc. 1, l. 3

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• This happened years and years ago, right as our videos were first being played on MTV. The interviewer said, "You guys are getting famous now. Are you going to be riding around in limousines, doing drugs, and sleeping with beautiful women?" And I was a precocious young man, and my snappy comeback to that cheerful question was, "We're willing to sleep with beautiful women." But no part of the question was in the article.

  John Flansburgh

  Beautiful, Sleep, Men

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It is cheerful to God when you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Laughter, Heart

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• He meant the Kingdom was over, the Kingdom of Heaven, it was all finished. We shouldn't live as if it mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the most important place.... We have to be all those difficult things like cheerful and kind and curious and patient, and we've got to study and think and work hard, all of us, in all our different worlds, and then we'll build... The Republic of Heaven.

  Philip Pullman

  Hard Work, Thinking, Heaven

  Philip Pullman (2007). “The Amber Spyglass”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• ...[W]e should be mucking about all the time, because mucking about is enjoying life for its own sake, now, and not in preparation for an imaginary future. It's obvious that the mirth-filled man, the cheerful soul, the childish adult is the one who has least to fear from life.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Men, Enjoy Life, Soul

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• The city was blacked out because bombers might come, so Billy didn't get to see Dresden do one of the most cheerful things a city can do when the sun goes down, which is to wink its lights on one by one.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Light, Cities, Bombers

  KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE”

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• The devil, the originator of sorrowful anxieties and restless troubles, flees before the sound of music almost as much as before the Word of God....Music is a gift and grace of God, not an invention of men. Thus it drives out the devil and makes people cheerful. Then one forgets all wrath, impurity, and other devices.

  Martin Luther

  Music, Men, Wrath

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• To be cheerful when others are in despair, to keep the faith when others falter, to be true even when we feel forsaken—all of these are deeply desired outcomes during the deliberate, divine tutorials which God gives to us—because He loves us. These learning experiences must not be misread as divine indifference. Instead, such tutorials are a part of the divine unfolding.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Giving, Despair, Tutorial

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• What is more cheerful, now, in the fall of the year, than an open-wood-fire? Do you hear those little chirps and twitters coming out of that piece of apple-wood? Those are the ghosts of the robins and blue-birds that sang upon the bough when it was in blossom last Spring. In Summer whole flocks of them come fluttering about the fruit-trees under the window: so I have singing birds all the year round.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Summer, Spring, Fall

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1873). “Marjorie Daw and Other People”, p.168

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• A man he seems of cheerful yesterdays And confident tomorrows.

  William Wordsworth

  Confidence, Men, Yesterday

  William Wordsworth (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Wordsworth (Illustrated)”, p.828, Delphi Classics

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• Oh yes, there's lots of great food in America. But the fast food is about as destructive and evil as it gets. It celebrates a mentality of sloth, convenience, and a cheerful embrace of food we know is hurting us.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Hurt, America, Evil

  "Anthony Bourdain’s Off-the-Menu Travel Tips". Interview with Mary Anne Potts, adventureblog.nationalgeographic.com. August 3, 2011.

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• Being cheerful and affable with people is by itself half of wisdom.

  Ja'far al-Sadiq

  Happiness, People, Half

  "Bihārul Anwār". Book by Majlisi, vol.76, p. 60, d. 1110/1698.

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• Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.

  Erica Jong

  Terrified, Envied, My Friends

  Erica Jong (2013). “Fear of Flying: 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.233, Open Road Media

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• Be positive, cheerful, grateful and expectant.

  Earl Nightingale

  Grateful, Being Positive

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