“ There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can. ”
- Henry Van Dyke- Copy
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“ To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the best precepts of long lasting. ”
- Francis Bacon- Copy
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“ Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy as they give and such harm as they do. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Marcus Annaeus Seneca- Copy
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“ The path to cheerfulness is to sit cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there. ”
- William James- Copy
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“ My life has ever been devoted to her service from my youth up, though never before in a cause like this - a cause for which I would most cheerfully risk and lay down my life. ”
- David Wooster- Copy
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“ In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong. ”
- John Kenneth Galbraith- Copy
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“ You can never tell when an artist really will take up someone's work and work with it happily. ”
- Peter Porter- Copy
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“ The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully. ”
- Epicurus- Copy
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“ Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction. ”
- Blaise Pascal- Copy
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“ A man can refrain from wanting what he has not, and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand. ”
- Marcus Annaeus Seneca- Copy
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“ A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat. ”
- Lydia M. Child- Copy
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“ A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contently. ”
- Benjamin Franklin- Copy
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“ Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as cheerfully as possible. ”
- Dr. Karl Menninger- Copy
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“ Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind. ”
- Robert Louis Stevenson- Copy
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“ Let the alms giver give freely and those who do works of mercy do them cheerfully. Do not let your love be a pretense. ”
- The Holy Bible- Copy
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“ Men never do evil so fully and cheerfully as when we do it out of conscience. ”
- Blaise Pascal- Copy
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“ Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing. ”
- Frederick William Robertson- Copy
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“ The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
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“ I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves - such an ethical basis I call more proper for a herd of swine. The ideals which have lighted me on my way and time after time given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Truth, Goodness, and Beauty. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
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“ The techniques of opening conversation are universal. I knew long ago and rediscovered that the best way to attract attention, help, and conversation is to be lost. A man who seeing his mother starving to death on a path kicks her in the stomach to clear the way, will cheerfully devote several hours of his time giving wrong directions to a total stranger who claims to be lost. ”
- John Steinbeck- Copy
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“ The voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, and act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there. To feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end, and courage will very likely replace fear… ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never… ”
- William Henry Channing- Copy
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“ What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient, but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, of uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully. ”
- Charles Victor Cherbuliez- Copy
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