I'd like to think of my self as not melancholic at all, I think I'm a pretty cheerful person, really.
There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land (and work) again after a cheerful, careless voyage.
The path to cheerfulness is to sit cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there.
From the top of the staircase she sees the London train, modern and elegant, and she tells herself again: Whether it's good luck or bad to be born onto this earth, the best way to spend a life here is to let yourself be carried along, as I am moving at this moment, by a cheerful, noisy crowd moving forward.
Some people would be discontented in Paradise, others. . . are cheerful in a graveyard.
Good words are worth much, and cost little.
The succession of cheerful, period musicals I made, plus Oscar Levant's widely publicized remark about my virginity, contributed to what has been called my "image", which is a word that baffles me. There never was any intent on my part either in my acting or in my private life to create any such thing as an image.
Cheerful poor is rich with a smile, sulky rich is poor with a bullion of gold.
Cheerful looks make every dish a feast, and it is that which crowns a welcome.
The sound of the mandolin is a very curious sound because it's cheerful and melancholy at the same time, and I think it comes from that shadow string, the double strings.
Humility, after the first shock, is cheerful virtue.
Everyone, including you, just naturally feels better when exposed to a cheerful, optimistic individual, regardless of the nature or length of the contact.
I don't think you should have to try to be nice, I think most people are nice. I think being cheerful and nice is just a politeness.
The landlord of colonial days may not have been the greatest man in town, but he was certainly the best-known, often the most popular, and ever the most picturesque and cheerful figure.
Statistically speaking, the Cheerful Early Riser is rejected more completely than a member of any other subculture, save those with boot odor.
Don't get me wrong. I like Disney World. The rest rooms are clean enough for neurosurgery, and the employees say things like "Howdy, folks!" and actually seem to mean it. You wonder: Where do they get these people? My guess: 1952. I think old Walt realized, way back then, that there would eventually be a shortage of cheerful people, so he put all the residents of south western Nebraska into a giant freezer with a huge picture of Jiminy Cricket on the outside, and the corporation has been thawing them out as needed ever since.
Individuals we consider happy commonly seem complete in the present and we see them constantly in their wholeness: attentive, cheerful, open rather than closed to events, integral in the moment rather than distended across time by regret or anxiety.
Everybody knows the Lord loveth a cheerful giver.
In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
I've always tried to be cheerful, because I think people who whine are boring, and I never could tolerate bores.