Michel de Montaigne
Philosopher, Writer
"The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness."
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Teresa of Avila
Saint, Mystic, Writer
"Those seeking the life of the spirit should be cheerful and free, and not neglect recreation. Married people must act in conformity with their vocation--but their progress will of necessity be but the pace of a hen."
Martha Washington
First Lady of the United States
"I am still determined to be cheerful and to be happy in whatever situation I may be, for I have also learnt from experianence that the greater part of our happiness or misary depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances; we carry the seeds of the one, or the other about with us, in our minds, wherever we go."
Elbert Hubbard
Writer, Publisher
"The cheerful loser is the winner."
Christian Dior
Fashion Designer
"There is certainly a red for everyone."
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"Having a yacht is a reason for being more cheerful than most."
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"Each of us, famous or infamous, is a role model for somebody, and if we aren't, we should behave as though we are -- cheerful, kind, loving, courteous. Because you can be sure someone is watching and taking deliberate and diligent notes."
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"Learn the sweet magic of a cheerful face."
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"Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks."
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"The sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, to look round cheerfully, and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there. If such conduct does not make you soon feel cheerful, nothing else on that occasion can."
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"If you want to become a concert pianist, do it every day. You want to be a writer, do it every day. You want to become depressed, think depressing thoughts every day. You want to become an optimist, think a cheerful thought every day. Do it every day."
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"The cheerful mind perseveres and the strong mind hews its way through a thousand difficulties."
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"The person who gives with a smile is the best giver because God loves a cheerful giver."
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"Be cheerful -- the problems that worry us most are those that never arrive."
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"Good words are worth much, and cost little."
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"One must never have spared oneself, one must have acquired hardness as a habit to be cheerful and in good spirits in the midst of nothing but hard truths."
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"What I really want from Music: That it be cheerful and profound like an afternoon in October."
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"I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel equally distributed to the whole human family, there would not be one cheerful face on the earth. Whether I shall ever be better, I cannot tell; I awfully forebode I shall not. To remain as I am is impossible. I must die or be better, it appears to me."
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"Divorced women, compared to married women, are less satisfied with their lives, which is not surprising. But they're actually more cheerful, when you look at the average mood they're in in the course of the day."
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"If a man must make himself appear cheerful; he must know why he is miserable."
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"Is there such thing as a cheerful pessimist? That's what I am."
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"Lay aside life-harming heaviness, And entertain a cheerful disposition."
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"I realize that, while often happy and often cheerful, I am always sad."
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"There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land (and work) again after a cheerful, careless voyage."
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"I have been feeling very much lately that cheerful insecurity is what our Lord asks of us."
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