Cheerful Quotes - Page 6

• We speak much of the duty of making others happy. No day should pass, we say, on which we do not put a little cheer into some discouraged heart, make the path a little smoother for someone’s tired feet, or help some fainting robin unto its nest again. This is right. We cannot put too great emphasis upon the duty of giving happiness and cheer to others. But it is no less a duty that we should be happy and cheerful ourselves.

  J.R. Miller

  Cheer, Tired, Heart

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• To our generation Einstein has been made to become a double symbol - a symbol of the mind travelling in the cold regions of space, and a symbol of the brave and generous outcast, pure in
  heart and cheerful of spirit.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Heart, Our Generation, Space

  "The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes". Book by John Maynard Keynes, Cambridge University Press, volume xxviii, 1998.

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• A good Dianetic auditor can take a broken-down, sorrow-drenched lady of thirty-eight and knock out her past periods of physical and mental pain and have on his hands somebody who appears to be twenty-five-and a bright, cheerful twenty-five at that.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Pain, Past, Eight

  L. Ron Hubbard (1987). “Self Analysis”, p.48, Bridge Publications, Inc.

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• Individuals we consider happy commonly seem complete in the present and we see them constantly in their wholeness: attentive, cheerful, open rather than closed to events, integral in the moment rather than distended across time by regret or anxiety.

  Robert Grudin

  Regret, Anxiety, Events

  Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.188, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Distrust your religion unless it is cheerful, unless it turns every act and deed to music and exults in attempts to catch the harmony of the new life.‎

  Phillips Brooks

  New Life, Deeds, Harmony

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• Love is a very contradiction of all the elements of our ordinary nature -- it makes the proud man meek -- the cheerful, sad -- the high-spirited, tame; our strongest resolutions, our hardiest energy fail before it. Believe me, you cannot prophesy of its future effect in a man from any knowledge of his past character.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Believe, Character, Past

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• Along a stream that raced and ran
  Through tangled trees and over stones,
  That long had heard the pipes o' Pan
  And shared the joys that nature owns,
  I met a fellow fisherman,
  Who greeted me in cheerful tones.
  . . . .
  Foes think the bad in him they've guessed
  And prate about the wrong they scan;
  Friends that have seen him at his best
  Believe they know his every plan;
  I know him better than the rest,
  I know him as a fisherman.

  Edgar Guest

  Believe, Thinking, Fishing

  Edgar Albert Guest, “The Fisherman”

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• …a cheerful black shadow reared up behind him as he spoke, thundering a happy challenge to my Dark Passenger, which slid forward and bellowed back.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Dark, Challenges, Black

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Dearly Devoted Dexter”, p.285, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• Being a cheerful hobbit, he had not needed hope, as long as despair could be postponed. (Of Sam)

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Long, Despair, Needed

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.436, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Let the soul be assured that somewhere in the universe it should rejoin its friend, and it would be content and cheerful alone for a thousand years.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Years, Soul, Would Be

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.42, Coyote Canyon Press

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• Appearances are not reality; but they often can be a convincing alternative to it. You can control appearances most of the time, but facts are what they are. When the facts are too sharp, you can craft a cheerful version of the situation and cover the facts the way that you can covered a battered old four-slice toaster with a knitted cozy featuring images of kittens.

  Dean Koontz

  Reality, Often Can, Toasters

  Dean Koontz (2007). “The Good Guy”, p.103, Bantam

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• Nah, you always look good. As for me … well, it's hard to explain. The auras are getting to me. There's so much sorrow around here. You can't even begin to understand. It radiates from everyone on a spiritual level. It's overwhelming. It makes your dark aura downright cheerful.

  Richelle Mead

  Spiritual, Dark, Sorrow

  Richelle Mead (2008). “Shadow Kiss: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.223, Penguin

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• If Melissa Miller were an artist, she would have painted the world in vicious streaks of red. Nothing like Picasso's rose period, all soft and cheerful and so optimistic that it made you want to puke. Missy's red phase would have been brutal and bright enough to cut your eyes. Missy's art would have been honest.

  Jackie Morse Kessler

  Art, Eye, Optimistic

  Jackie Morse Kessler (2011). “Rage”, p.9, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Words can mean different things to different people. It is important to understand what people mean when they use a certain word. Let's make an example. Take the word gay. Fifty years ago, gay meant exclusively cheerfulness, lighthearted excitement, merry or bright colors. Today this word has a different meaning. You won't call a cheerful person gay because it could be understood as something else.

  Ali Sina

  Mean, Gay, Color

  Source: myislam.dk

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• Do not imagine that if you meet a really humble man he will be what most people call "humble" nowadays: he will not be a sort of greasy, smarmy person, who is always telling you that, of course, he is a nobody. Probably all you will think about him is that he seemed a cheerful, intelligent chap who took a real interest in what you said to him.

  C. S. Lewis

  Real, Humble, Intelligent

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.112, HarperCollins UK

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• Just once, I want to meet the villain in a cheerful, brightly lit room. Possibly one with kittens.

  Mira Grant

  Want, Rooms, Villain

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• And when he had put his hand on mine with a cheerful look, wherefrom I took courage, he brought me within to the secret things. Here sighs, laments, and deep wailings were resounding through the starless air; wherefore at first I wept thereat. Strange tongues, horrible utterances, words of woe, accents of anger, voices high and faint, and sounds of hands with them, were making a tumult which whirls always in that air forever dark, like the sand when the whirlwind breathes.

  Dante Alighieri

  Dark, Air, Hands

  Dante Alighieri (2005). “The Divine Comedy: Inferno”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• Rising from the dead? Glowing at sunrise? What did that make him, the god of cheerful mornings and macabre surprises?

  N.K. Jemisin

  Morning, Glowing, Sunrise

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• Don’t fail through defects of temper and over-sensitiveness at moments of trial. One of the great helps to success is to be cheerful; to go to work with a full sense of life; to be determined to put hindrances out of the way; to prevail over them and to get the mastery. Above all things else, be cheerful; there is no beatitude for the despairing.

  Amelia Barr

  Mastery, Trials, Way

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• Lukewarm people give money to charity and to the church....as long as it doesn't impinge on their standard of living. If they have a little extra and it is easy and safe to give, they do so. After all, God loves a cheerful giver, right?

  Francis Chan

  Long, People, Giving

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.47, David C Cook

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• It's sad if people think that's (homemaking) a dull existance, [but] you can't just buy an apartment and furnish it and walk away. It's the flowers you choose, the music you play, the smile you have waiting. I want it to be gay and cheerful, a haven in this troubled world. I don't want my husband and children to come home and find a rattled woman. Our era is already rattled enough, isn't it?

  Audrey Hepburn

  Children, Husband, Flower

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• They don’t need walls and water to keep the prisoners in, not when they’re trapped inside their own heads, incapable of a single cheerful thought. Most go mad within weeks - Lupin

  J. K. Rowling

  Wall, Mad, Water

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• I hide hurt behind a fake smile. I wear it all the time. Everyone says how I always look so cheerful. Shows what they know I guess.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Hurt, Fake, Looks

  Ellen Hopkins (2014). “Tilt”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• How am I doing so far?" she asked, forcing a cheerful lightness into her voice. "You're doing very well," Nick's lazy voice mocked. "I'm half convinced that I'm invisible.

  Judith McNaught

  Voice, Lazy, Half

  Judith McNaught (2016). “Double Standards”, p.148, Simon and Schuster

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• The cheerful mind perseveres and the strong mind hews its way through a thousand difficulties.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Strong, Mind, Way

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