Cheerfulness Quotes

Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.

Kristin Bauer is so funny. Half the time I'm working with her I'm just trying to keep a straight face.

To me, if something makes you laugh, that's heart-warming. It doesn't necessarily have to be friendly; it might just be the weirdest thing ever. Laughing makes me feel better.

I'm a comedian. Comedians are supposed to be jaded, cynical, angry people. But I'm not: I'm a silly, silly fun boy.

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

Nobody owns anything but everyone is rich - for what greater wealth can there be than cheerfulness, peace of mind, and freedom from anxiety?

Everybody agrees that there is no people on earth in whom generosity is as universally well developed as the Zanj. These people have a natural talent for dancing to the rhythm of the tambourine, without needing to learn it. There are no better singers anywhere in the world, no people more polished and eloquent, and no people less given to insulting language. No other nation can surpass them in bodily strength and physical toughness. One of them will lift huge blocks and carry heavy loads that would be beyond the strength of most Bedouins or members of other races. They are courageous, energetic, and generous, which are the virtues of nobility, and also good-tempered and with little propensity to evil. They are always cheerful, smiling, and devoid of malice, which is a sign of noble character.

Everybody is nicer to me when I'm in yellow.

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.

Every thing in life that's first should be a celebration or celebrated with a lot of oomph.

Sunshine is a welcome thing. It brings a lot of brightness.

The truth is, I'm pretty lighthearted.

Humor is important. Nothing against bands that are always a downer, but the reality is - it just becomes theater.

Do not laugh much or often or unrestrainedly.

I'm happy wherever I go, whatever I do. I'm happy in Iowa, I'm happy here in California.

Comedy is saving me.

If someone could get off a good joke every ten days I think our troubles will be over.

They were certainly not soldiers. They were as ignorant of the alphabet of obedience as their officers were of the art of commanding. And yet they acquitted themselves reasonably well, a fact which can be explained only by reference to the causes of their insubordination in camp. These men were the people of the South, and the war was their own; wherefore they fought to win it of their own accord, and not at all because their officers commanded them to do so. Their personal spirit and their intelligence were their sole elements of strength. Death has few terrors for such men, as compared with dishonor, and so they needed no officers at all, and no discipline, to insure their personal good conduct on the field of battle. The same elements of character, too, made them accept hardship with the utmost cheerfulness…

I'm happy; I'm a happy person.

Yeah, I am fun loving. I do crack jokes at times too.

I'm not the kind of person who sits off by myself and ignores everyone. I like to be happy!

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union.

I just like having fun. And, you know, sometimes I just like to present myself in that fun energy.

Actions seems to follow feeling, but really actions and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not. Thus the sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there.