#cheerful

She belongs to the winter that is past, to the darkness that is over, and has no part or lot in the life I shall lead for the next six months. Oh, I could dance and sing for joy that the spring is here! What a ressurection of beauty there is in my garden, and of brightest hope in my heart. ↗

— Elizabeth von Arnim

#hope #beauty

In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#faith #faramir #optimism #faith

These are the few ways we can practice humility: To speak as little as possible of one's self. To mind one's own business. Not to want to manage other people's affairs. To avoid curiosity. To accept contradictions and correction cheerfully. To pass over the mistakes of others. To accept insults and injuries. To accept being slighted, forgotten and disliked. To be kind and gentle even under provocation. Never to stand on one's dignity. To choose always the hardest. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#bossy #cheerful #curiosity #difficulty #dignity

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age. ↗

— Amos Bronson Alcott

#cheerful #heart #hopeful #keep #kindly

I have always been - I think any student of history almost inevitably is - a cheerful pessimist. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

#always #any #been #cheerful #history

Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old. ↗

— Tryon Edwards

#born #cheerful #count #die #even

Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious. ↗

— William Feather

#cheerfulness #early #early morning #extremely #obnoxious

You find yourself refreshed in the presence of cheerful people. Why not make an honest effort to confer that pleasure on others? Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy. ↗

— Lydia M. Child

#anything #battle #cheerful #confer #effort

Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#cheerful #dignity #effect #either #epochs

The impossibility of a retreat makes no difference in the situation of men resolved to conquer or die; and, believe me, my friends, if your conquest could be bought with the blood of your general, he would most cheerfully resign a life which he has long devoted to his country. ↗

— James Wolfe

#blood #bought #cheerfully #conquer #conquest