75 Quotes About Cheerfulness

One good thing about New York is that most people function daily while in a low-grade depression. It's not like if you're in Los Angeles, where everyone's so actively working on cheerfulness and mental and physical health that if they sense you're down, they shun you. Also, all that sunshine is a cruel joke when you're depressed. In New York, even in your misery, you feel like you belong.

The most winning attitude toward life is one of cheerful irreverence.

Excitement about things became a habit, a part of my personality, and the expectation that I should enjoy new experiences often engendered the enjoyment itself.

Be positive. Stay happy and don't let the negativity of the world get you down.

Seeing the mud around a lotus is pessimism, seeing a lotus in the mud is optimism.

Don't look shy if you wear rag and people gag, many are in the grave wearing skeleton, and you should even be happier for wearing a skin without clothes.

Repentence is like a royal cheer.

what time can be more beautiful than the one in which the finest virtues, innocent cheerfulness and indefinable longing for love constitute the sole motives of your life?

Growing old and cheerful means learning to live with all the contradictions.