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.

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.

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.

It was morning through the high window I saw the pure bright blue of the sky as it hovered cheerfully over the long roofs of the neighboring houses. It too seemed full of joy as if it had special plans and had put on its finest clothes for the occasion.

Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

Well I don't know that I'm okay any more than anyone else is okay I lead a happy life and a very full one - I have a happy marriage and my kids are all cheerful and no one is finding fault with me personally.

If you command wisely you'll be obeyed cheerfully.

Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world and bettered the tradition of mankind.

Poor David Hume is dying fast but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God.

I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.

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

An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.

Web 2.0 ideas have a chirpy cheerful rhetoric to them but I think they consistently express a profound pessimism about humans human nature and the human future.

Never hurry. Take plenty of exercise. Always be cheerful. Take all the sleep you need. You may expect to be well.

A cheerful frame of mind reinforced by relaxation... is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run.

The Negro people of America... have cut our forests tilled our fields built our railroads fought our battles and in all of their trials they have manifested a simple faith a grateful heart a cheerful spirit and an undivided loyalty .

As might be supposed my parents were quite poor but we somehow never seemed to lack anything we needed and I never saw a trace of discontent or a failure in cheerfulness over their lot in life as indeed over anything.

The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage disappointment with cheerfulness and trial with humility.

Being forced to work and forced to do your best will breed in you temperance and self-control diligence and strength of will cheerfulness and content and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.

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