Quotes on Cheerful

The game of life looks cheerful when one carries a treasure safe in his heart.

To whom can I expose the urgency of my own passion?…There is nobody—here among these grey arches, and moaning pigeons, and cheerful games and tradition and emulation, all so skilfully organised to prevent feeling alone.

Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced. . . . It is that absence of being able to envisage that you will ever be cheerful again. The absence of hope. That very deadened feeling, which is so very different from feeling sad. Sad hurts but it's a healthy feeling. It is a necessary thing to feel. Depression is very different.

Being a cheerful hobbit, he had not needed hope, as long as despair could be postponed. (Of Sam)

Let the soul be assured that somewhere in the universe it should rejoin its friend, and it would be content and cheerful alone for a thousand years.

The cheerful mind perseveres and the strong mind hews its way through a thousand difficulties.

Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.

Why do we people in churches seem like cheerful, brainless tourists on a packaged tour of the Absolute?

The banjo is such a happy instrument--you can't play a sad song on the banjo - it always comes out so cheerful.

O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.