#cheerful

Money is time. With money I buy for cheerful use the hours which otherwise would not in any sense be mine; nay, which would make me their miserable bondsman. ↗

— George Gissing

#buy #cheerful #hours #i #make

Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline. ↗

— Edwin Percy Whipple

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I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history if I can succeed in placing before the English of the nineteenth century a true picture of the life of their ancestors. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#bear #before #below #century #cheerfully

The same tools that make any writer good, plus a cheerful willingness to suspend belief. ↗

— Fred Saberhagen

#belief #cheerful #good #make #plus

I became educated to the fact that the greatest pain does not come zooming down from a distant planet, but from the depths of the heart. Of course, both could happen; your wife and child could leave you, and you could be sitting alone in your empty house with nothing to live for, and in addition the Martians could bore through the roof and get you. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#education

To make the fastest progress, Be an absolutely cheerful Hero-warrior And take both victory and failure As parallel experience rivers Leading to the sea Of progress-delight. ↗

— Sri Chinmoy

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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

I used to think of you that way, you know. Like the sun. My personal sun. You balanced out the clouds nicely for me." He sighed. "The clouds I can handle. But I can't fight with an eclipse. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#cheerfulness #companionship #balance

Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks. ↗

— Jimmy Breslin

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Well I don't know that I'm okay any more than anyone else is okay, I lead a happy life and a very full one - I have a happy marriage and my kids are all cheerful, and no one is finding fault with me, personally. ↗

— L. Ron Hubbard

#anyone #cheerful #else #fault #finding