#cheerful

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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.


Thomas Carlyle


#cheerful #cheerfulness #endurance #longer #man

The same tools that make any writer good, plus a cheerful willingness to suspend belief.


Fred Saberhagen


#belief #cheerful #good #make #plus

I love those who can smile in trouble...


Leonardo da Vinci


#attitude #cheerfulness #attitude

These thoughts are depressing I know. They are depressing, I wish I was more cheerful, it is more pleasant, Also it is a duty, we should smile as well as submitting To the purpose of One Above who is experimenting With various mixtures of human character which goes best, All is interesting for him it is exciting, but not for us. There I go again. Smile, smile, and get some work to do Then you will be practically unconscious without positively having to go.


Stevie Smith


#depression #duty #god #obliviousness #work

Here sighs and cries and shrieks of lamentation echoed throughout the starless air of Hell; at first these sounds resounding made me weep: tongues confused, a language strained in anguish with cadences of anger, shrill outcries and raucous groans that joined with sounds of hands, raising a whirling storm that turns itself forever through that air of endless black, like grains of sand swirling when a whirlwind blows. And I, in the midst of all this circling horror, began, "Teacher, what are these sounds I hear? What souls are these so overwhelmed by grief?" And he to me: "This wretched state of being is the fate of those sad souls who lived a life but lived it with no blame and with no praise. They are mixed with that repulsive choir of angels neither faithful nor unfaithful to their God, who undecided stood but for themselves. Heaven, to keep its beauty, cast them out, but even Hell itself would not receive them, for fear the damned might glory over them." And I. "Master, what torments do they suffer that force them to lament so bitterly?" He answered: "I will tell you in few words: these wretches have no hope of truly dying, and this blind life they lead is so abject it makes them envy every other fate. The world will not record their having been there; Heaven's mercy and its justice turn from them. Let's not discuss them; look and pass them by...


Dante Alighieri


#inspiring #anger

Web 2.0 ideas have a chirpy, cheerful rhetoric to them, but I think they consistently express a profound pessimism about humans, human nature and the human future.


Jaron Lanier


#cheerful #consistently #express #future #human

A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat.


Lydia M. Child


#defeat #forth #reformer #sets #sure

The sound of the mandolin is a very curious sound because it's cheerful and melancholy at the same time, and I think it comes from that shadow string, the double strings.


Rita Dove


#cheerful #comes #curious #double #i

To be seventy years young is sometimes for more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.


Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.


#forty #forty years #hopeful #more #old

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.


Oliver Wendell Holmes


#far #forty #forty years #hopeful #more