One reason that a lot of people see me as cheerful and optimistic is that my expectations are really rather low.

As God loves a cheerful giver, so he also loves a cheerful taker. Who takes hold of his gifts with a glad heart.

I've always tried to be cheerful, because I think people who whine are boring, and I never could tolerate bores.

Even-minded and cheerful. When things go bad, you'll find that the same kind of attitude comes to you naturally.

A woman flees from temptation, but a man just crawls away from it in the cheerful hope that it may overtake him.

Never hurry. Take plenty of exercise. Always be cheerful. Take all the sleep you need. You may expect to be well.

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

He who follows reason in all things is both tranquil and active at the same time, and also cheerful and collected.

A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.

Can you suppose there's any harm in looking as cheerful and being as cheerful as our poor circumstances will permit?

I'd love, love, love to do a comedy. I can't imagine being on set and being happy and cheerful. That seems so foreign.

A happy woman is one who has no cares at all; a cheerful woman is one who has cares but doesn't let them get her down.

Let the mind be cheerful but calm. Never let it run into excesses, because every excess will be followed by a reaction.

I always found the Chicago audience to be a smart, fast-moving, violent and cheerful lot, and it's always good to be back.

I don't have any down days. If anybody who knows me comes into our locker room, they know I'm happy; they know I'm cheerful.

Being organized will give you more free time, contribute to a cheerful nature, and add to the peace and security of your home.

One of the weaknesses of the company now is it is a bit cheap and cheerful and overly nasty, and that reflects my personality.

A man too careful of danger liveth in continual torment, But a cheerful expecter of the best hath a fountain of joy within him.

The human body is a steed that goes freest and longest under a light rider, and the lightest of all riders is a cheerful heart.

It is the hopeful, buoyant, cheerful attitude of mind that wins. Optimism is a success builder; pessimism an achievement killer.

He who loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, or an effectual comforter.

Bright reds - scarlet, pillar-box red, crimson or cherry - are very cheerful and youthful. There is certainly a red for everyone.

Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.

People always tell me my books are so dark; I don't think they're particularly dark. I'm not like that. I'm quite a cheerful soul.

I love better to count time from spring to spring; it seems to me far more cheerful to reckon the year by blossoms than by blight.

I don't think you should have to try to be nice, I think most people are nice. I think being cheerful and nice is just a politeness.

True religion and virtue give a cheerful and happy turn to the mind, admit of all true pleasures, and even procure for us the highest.

Give cheerfully. If we're not cheerful, the problem is our heart, and the solution is redirecting our heart, not withholding our giving.

When the mind has once formed the habit of holding cheerful, happy, prosperous pictures, it will not be easy to form the opposite habit.

Go out more, keep cheerful as well as busy, for you are the sunshine-maker of the family, and if you get dismal there is no fair weather.

I confess I love littleness almost in all things. A little convenient estate, a little cheerful house, a little company, and a little feast.

O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.

I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were felt by the whole human race, there would not be one cheerful face left on earth.

Be cheerful, also, and seek not external help, nor the peace which others give. A man must stand straight, and not be kept straight by others.

I am glad to think I am not bound to make the world go right, but only to discover and to do, with cheerful heart, the work that God appoints.

The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man are fixed upon the same creation; but very different are the aspects which it bears to them.

We must be bright and cheerful. Long faces do not make religion. Religion should be the most joyful thing in the world, because it is the best.

The solemnity of the annual Nobel ceremonies in Stockholm with the cheerful bad taste of the grand opening of a shopping center in Los Angeles.

We who are quotatious are never truly alone, but always hear the cheerful flow of remarks made by dead writers so much more intelligent than we.

It is difficult to realize how great a part of all that is cheerful and delightful in the recollections of our own life is associated with trees.

Even if we lose the wealth of thousands, and our life is sacrificed, we...should keep smiling and be cheerful keeping our faith in God and Truth.

Let's be cheerful! We have no more right to steal the brightness out of the day for our own family than we have to steal the purse of a stranger.

I have produced things that I would say were sincerely cheerful. But then I am reminded by other people that no one else would see them that way.

This is the twilight of the banks. It would be a more cheerful spectacle if we could envision the dawn of the institutions that will replace them

Those who have easy, cheerful attitudes tend to be happier than those with less pleasant temperaments, regardless of money, making it, or success.

Down South, I have predominantly acted in typical candy-floss films, where I have played cheerful college-girl roles with songs and romantic scenes.

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.

Life satisfaction essentially measures cheerful moods, so it is not entitled to a central place in any theory that aims to be more than a happiology.

Bad day?" "Every day is a bad day here." "Eh, this place isnt't so terrible." "How are you always cheerful?" "Alcohol," he says with a sideways grin.

If you are melancholy for the first time, you will find, upon a little inquiry, that others have been melancholy many times, and yet are cheerful now.

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