Cheerfulness Quotes - Page 11

• A cheerful, intelligent face is the end of culture.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Intelligent, Cheerful, Culture

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Culture, Behavior, Beauty”, p.37

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• [Gratitude is] the cheerfulness of wisdom.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Gratitude

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• Of course life is bizarre, the more bizarre it gets, the more interesting it is. The only way to approach it is to make yourself some popcorn and enjoy the show.

  David Gerrold

  Acceptance, Loving Life, Interesting

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• I suppose the thing I most would have liked to have known or been reassured about is that in the world, what counts more than talent, what counts more than energy or concentration or commitment, or anything else - is kindness. And the more in the world that you encounter kindness and cheerfulness - which is its kind of amiable uncle or aunt - the better the world always is. And all the big words: virtue, justice, truth - are dwarfed by the greatness of kindness.

  Stephen Fry

  Uncles, Kindness, Commitment

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• Constantly apply cheerfulness, if for no other reason than because you are on this spiritual path. Have a sense of gratitude to everything, even difficult emotions, because of their potential to wake you up.

  Pema Chodron

  Spiritual, Gratitude, Wakes You

  Pema Chodron (2007). “Always Maintain a Joyful Mind: And Other Lojong Teachings on Awakening Compassion and Fearlessness”, p.43, Shambhala Publications

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• It takes a Mother's Patience, to bring a child up right, And her Courage and her Cheerfulness to make a dark day bright.

  Helen Steiner Rice

  Family, Mother, Children

  Helen Steiner Rice (2004). “The Poems and Prayers of Helen Steiner Rice”, p.33, Revell

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• She was stronger alone; and her own good sense so well supported her, that her firmness was as unshaken, her appearance of cheerfulness as invariable, as, with regrets so poignant and so fresh, it was possible for them to be.

  Jane Austen

  Regret, Stronger, Appearance

  Jane Austen (1833). “Sense and Sensibility: A Novel”, p.119

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• A Morning Prayer The day returns and brings us the petty round of irritating concerns and duties. Help us to play the man; help us to perform them with laughter and kind faces, let cheerfulness abound with industry. Give us to go blithely on our business all this day. Bring us to our resting beds weary and content and undishonored and grant us in the end the gift of sleep.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Morning, Business, Laughter

  Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson, William Ernest Henley (1925). “The works of Robert Louis Stevenson”

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• Daring enthusiasm And abiding cheerfulness Can accomplish everything on earth Without fail.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Abiding, Earth, Enthusiasm

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• Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the way of the best happiness.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Happiness, Gratitude, Cheer

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• For the joy of ear and eye, for the heart and mind's delight, for the mystic harmony, linking sense to sound and sight; Lord of all, to thee we raise this our hymn of grateful praise.

  Folliott Sandford Pierpoint

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Cheer

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• If you have to have it, it's ego. If you have to not have it, it's ego. Hold life lightly and it will deliver what you need and release what you don't.

  Alan Cohen

  Ego, Needs, Sustainability

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• O sancta simplicitas! What strange simplification and falsification mankind lives on! One can never cease to marvel once one has acquired eyes for this marvel! How we have made everything around us bright and free and easy and simple! How we have known how to bestow on our senses a passport to everything superficial, on our thoughts a divine desire for wanton gambling and false conclusions! - how we have from the very beginning understood how to retain our ignorance so as to enjoy an almost inconceivable freedom, frivolity, impetuosity, bravery, cheerfulness of life, so as to enjoy life!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Eye, Ignorance, Simple

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• A cheerful temper, joined with innocence will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful, and wit good-natured.

  Joseph Addison

  Cheerful, Innocence, Attractive

  Joseph Addison (1856). “The works of ... Joseph Addison, with notes by R. Hurd”, p.153

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• Cub fans, by consensus, are the best in baseball. Year after year, in good times and (mostly) bad, they turn out in vociferous numbers, sustaining themselves with a heavenly ichor that combines loyalty, criticism, cheerfulness, durability, rage, beer and hope, in exquisite proportions.

  Roger Angell

  Loyalty, Baseball, Beer

  Roger Angell (2013). “The Roger Angell Baseball Collection: The Summer Game, Five Seasons, and Season Ticket”, p.1294, Open Road Media

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• Success is ninety-nine percent mental attitude. It calls for love, joy, optimism, confidence, serenity, poise, faith, courage, cheerfulness, imagination, initiative, tolerance, honesty, humility, patience, and enthusiasm.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Courage, Honesty, Attitude

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• Were I to pray for a taste which should stand me in good stead under every variety of circumstances and be a source of happiness and a cheerfulness to me during life and a shield against its ills, however things might go amiss and the world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading.

  John Herschel

  Book, Reading, World

  John Herschel (2014). “Essays from the Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews”, p.12, Cambridge University Press

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• Keep out of the Sight of Feasts and Banquets as much as may be; for 'tis more difficult to refrain good Cheer, when it's present, than from the Desire of it when it is away; the like you may observe in the Objects of all the other Senses.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Cheer, Sight, Desire

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.102, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Ten times must you laugh during the day, and be cheerful; otherwise your stomach, the father of affliction, will disturb you in the night.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Father, Night, Laughing

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2013). “Thus Spoke Zarathustra”, p.17, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Perhaps nothing is so depressing an index of the inhumanity of the male-supremacist mentality as the fact that the more genial human traits are assigned to the underclass: affection, response to sympathy, kindness, cheerfulness.

  Kate Millett

  Depressing, Kindness, Males

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• If you wou'd have Guests merry with your cheer, Be so your self, or so at least appear.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Cheer, Self, Guests

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.22, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• That roguish and cheerful vice, politeness.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Cheerful, Vices, Politeness

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Beyond Good and Evil”, p.179, Friedrich Nietzsche

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• People now are beginning to cheer for me. I've never heard that before. .. Maybe things are turning a bit.

  Alex Rodriguez

  Cheer, People, Heard

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• Well, Milwaukee is a special place to me. It's where I started my career playing in Appleton. Getting cheered on the road is something I haven't been use to.

  Alex Rodriguez

  Careers, Special, Use

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• I've never seen anything like that before. Usually when home teams break up no-hit bids, the crowd cheers the hit and cheers the pitcher. I've never seen them boo before.

  Corey Koskie

  Cheer, Team, Home

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