#cheerful

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. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#cheerfully #fingers #give #grace #hesitation

Rather than allow themselves to be separated from the love of Christ, they submitted cheerfully to every privation, to contumely and disgrace, and to death itself. ↗

— John Strachan

#cheerfully #christ #death #disgrace #every

The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man are fixed upon the same creation; but very different are the aspects which it bears to them. ↗

— Albert Pike

#bears #cheerful #creation #different #eyes

I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition. ↗

— Martha Washington

#am #cheerful #circumstance #determined #disposition

Nowadays, people don't ask you how you are, they say, 'Are you busy?' meaning, 'Are you well?' If someone actually does ask you how you are, the most cheerful answer, of course, is a robust 'Busy!' to which the person will reply 'Good!' ↗

— Jo Ann Davis

#answer #ask #busy #cheerful #course

There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament. ↗

— Henry Van Dyke

#cheerful #great #personal #temperament

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

#cheerfully #faithfully #get #immortality #life

Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb. ↗

— Benjamin Rush

#employed #even #frozen #hot #hot water

With this sweet hope of ultimate acceptance with God, I have always enjoyed much cheerfulness before men; but I have at the same time laboured incessantly to cultivate the deepest humiliation before God. ↗

— Charles Simeon

#always #before #cheerfulness #cultivate #deepest

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