The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation... is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run.
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.
Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.
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.
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.
Do not trust to the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you and I were going to be hanged.
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.
You find yourself refreshed in the presence of cheerful people. Why not make an honest effort to confer that pleasure on others? Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy.
Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.
He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.
If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament.
