#cheerful

Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age. ↗

— Lydia M. Child

#cheerful #childhood #itself #kindly #lovely

You can't reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#back #cheerfulness #extra #height #inches

No, I love the idea that someone changes. As an actor it's always the thing that you look for. He is someone who starts off bright, cheerful and confident and then has everything taken away from him. It's a wonderful journey to take. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#always #away #bright #changes #cheerful

If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

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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. ↗

— Donald G. Mitchell

#blight #blossoms #cheerful #count #far

To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#far #hopeful #more #old #sometimes

Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know. ↗

— Charles Kingsley

#best #breed #cheerfulness #content #diligence

We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#cheerfully #fingers #give #grace #hesitation

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. ↗

— Beverly Sills

#cheerful #down #get #happy #her

Give and receive; give big and receive big; give freely and receive freely; give poorly and receive poorly. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#free #freely #generous #generousity #give