#cheerful

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness. ↗

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

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Remain cheerful, For nothing destructive can pierce through The solid wall of cheerfulness. ↗

— Sri Chinmoy

#cheerfulness #inner-peace

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

— Jacques Barzun

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There's nothing quite like the pleasure you get from plants and flower," he said to himself. "They certainly do cheer you up. ↗

— Charmian Hussey

#flowers #nature #plants #pleasure #nature

Web 2.0 ideas have a chirpy, cheerful rhetoric to them, but I think they consistently express a profound pessimism about humans, human nature and the human future. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

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To be seventy years young is sometimes for more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man. ↗

— Leigh Hunt

#half #man #only #person #serious

I'm basically quite a cheerful person. ↗