While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.
- H.G. WellsSo of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains.
- Ralph Waldo EmersonCourage 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
- William OslerLet us be of cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
- Amy LowellCheerfulness in most cheerful people, is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline
- Edwin P. WhippleCheerfulness is the atmosphere in which all things thrive
- Jean Paul RichterCheerfulness is the best promoter of health, and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
- Joseph AddisonCheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity
- Joseph AddisonCheerfulness is the very flower of health.
- ProverbCheerfulness is health; its opposite, melancholy, is disease
- Thomas C. Haliburton