These thoughts are depressing I know. They are depressing, I wish I was more cheerful, it is more pleasant,Also it is a duty, we should smile as well as submitting To the purpose of One Above who is experimentingWith various mixtures of human character which goes best, All is interesting for him it is exciting, but not for us. There I go again. Smile, smile, and get some work to doThen you will be practically unconscious without positively having to go.

It takes no more time to see the good side of life than to see the bad.

A smile is a sunny spirit.

'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile When everything goes dead wrong.

All succeeds with people who are sweet and cheerful.

I'm not happy, I'm cheerful. There's a difference. A happy woman has no cares at all. A cheerful woman has cares but has learned how to deal with them.

I can't be happy every day but I can be cheerful.

...a light heart lives long.

You find yourself refreshed by the presence of cheerful people. Why not make an honest effort to confer that pleasure on others?

A merry heart doeth good like a medicine ...

...he that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast.

A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance.

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 is not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.

The highest wisdom and the highest genius have been invariably accompanied with cheerfulness. We have sufficient proofs on record that Shakespeare and Socrates were the most festive companions.

My religion of life is always to be cheerful.

Cheerfulness smooths the road of life.