#cheerful

One's age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life seems out of place. At midday the sun may burn, and men labor under it; but the morning and evening should be alike calm and cheerful. ↗

— Thomas Arnold

#alike #burn #calm #cheerful #childhood

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

— Jacques Barzun

#always #any #been #cheerful #history

A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner. ↗

— Norman Douglas

#believe #cheerful #considerable #daily #daily work

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

I think I'm a fun flatmate. I'm always cheerful. I go on tour with my band so it's 12 people on one bus and I feel like I'm the one who's happy in the morning. I'm not a chaotic person, but I might slack off on doing the dishes from time to time. ↗

— Zooey Deschanel

#band #bus #chaotic #cheerful #dishes

Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old. ↗

— Tryon Edwards

#born #cheerful #count #die #even

The Danish glee: the national version of cheerfulness. ↗

— Georg Brandes

#danish #glee #national #version

What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully. ↗

— Victor Cherbuliez

#cheerfully #detail #ease #foresight #habit

If my acceptance of the office of Governor would serve my country, though my administration would be attended with the loss of personal credit and reputation, I would cheerfully undertake it. ↗

— Christopher Gadsden

#administration #attended #cheerfully #country #credit

Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#cheerful #dignity #effect #either #epochs