“Cheerfulness, sir, is the principle ingredient in the composition of health”
Arthur Murphy
“The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.”
Mark Twain
“I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.”
Martha Washington
“To insure good health: eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life.”
William Londen
“Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity”
Joseph Addison
“For there is no friend like a sister, in calm or stormy weather, to cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.”
Christina G. Rossetti
“Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen”
Thomas Carlyle