The true source of cheerfulness is benevolence.

The true source of cheerfulness is benevolence.

Cheer up! The worst is yet to come!

Cheer up! The worst is yet to come!

Courage and cheerfulness will not only carry you over the rough places in life, but will enable you to bring read more

Courage and cheerfulness will not only carry you over the rough places in life, but will enable you to bring comfort and help to the weak-hearted and will console you in the sad hours

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health, and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health, and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

Cheerfulness is health; its opposite, melancholy, is disease

Cheerfulness is health; its opposite, melancholy, is disease

Cheerfulness in most cheerful people, is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline.

Cheerfulness in most cheerful people, is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline.

Cheered up himself with ends of verse
And sayings of philosophers.

Cheered up himself with ends of verse
And sayings of philosophers.

As long as there is a chance of the world getting through its
troubles, I hold that a reasonable read more

As long as there is a chance of the world getting through its
troubles, I hold that a reasonable man must behave as though he
were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness was not
justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance--the cheerful man will do more in the same time, read more

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.