Cheerful Quotes

The most spiritual men, as the strongest, find their happiness where others would find their destruction: in the labyrinth, in hardness against themselves and others, in experiments. Their joy is self-conquest: asceticism becomes in them nature, need, and instinct. Difficult tasks are a privilege to them; to play with burdens that crush others, a recreation. Knowledge - a form of asceticism. They are the most venerable kind of man: that does not preclude their being the most cheerful and the kindliest.

The thousand mysteries around us would not trouble but interest us, if only we had cheerful, healthy hearts.

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.

Let me declare expressly that in the days when mankind was not yet ashamed of its cruelty, life on earth was more cheerful than it is now that pessimists exist.

The person who gives with a smile is the best giver because God loves a cheerful giver.

I can do only one thing, like a little dog follow closely the Master's footsteps. Pray that I be a cheerful dog.

We must be Bright and Cheerful, long faces do not make Religion.

The cheerful mind perseveres and the strong mind hews its way through a thousand difficulties.

Always keep the mind cheerful. Everyone will die once. Cowards suffer the pangs of death again and again, solely due to the fear in their own minds.