Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health, and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health, and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

Cheerfulness removes the rust from the mind, lubricates our inward machinery, and enables us to do our work with fewer read more

Cheerfulness removes the rust from the mind, lubricates our inward machinery, and enables us to do our work with fewer creaks and ;groans. If people were universally cheerful, probably there wouldn't be half the quarreling or a tenth part of the wickedness ;there is. Cheerfulness, too, promotes health and immortality. Cheerful people live longest here on earth, afterward in our hearts.

Cheerfulness is the very flower of health.

Cheerfulness is the very flower of health.

Cheer up! The worst is yet to come!

Cheer up! The worst is yet to come!

A good laugh is sunshine in a house.

A good laugh is sunshine in a house.

Cheer up, the worst is yet to come.

Cheer up, the worst is yet to come.

I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.

I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.

While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to read more

While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.