Thoughts—Cheerfulness	
1. Twain:  a) What is the best way to cheer 
 yourself up?  b) What should wrinkles indicate?
2. Chalmers:  What are the 3 essentials of 
 happiness?
3. Scottish saying:  Why should you be happy 	
while you’re living?	
4. Oppenheim:  a) Where does the foolish man 	
seek happiness?  b) Where does the wise man 
grow it?	
5. Barrie:  What happens to those who bring 
 sunshine to the lives of others?
6. Thomajan:  a) What does a hearty laugh give?  	
b) What does a cry give?	
7. Forbes:  What is one of the wonders of the 	
world?	
8. Hagspiel:  After you have warmed our own 	
heart, what should you go out and do?	
9. In what 2 places do cheerful people live 
 longest?
10. a) Which quote do you like?  b) Why?	
The best way to cheer yourself up is to cheer 
somebody else up.    —Mark Twain
Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have 
been.             —Mark Twain
A good laugh is sunshine in a house.
    —W. Thackeray
The grand essentials of happiness are:  something to 
do, something to love, and something to hope for.   
    —Allan Chalmers
Be happy while you’re living, for you’re a long time 
dead.   —Scottish saying
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the 
wise grows it under his feet.  —James Oppenheim
If you don’t learn to laugh at trouble, you won’t 
have anything to laugh at when you’re old.
    —Ed Howe
Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others 
cannot keep it from themselves.  —James Barrie
The most thoroughly waste of all days is that on 
which one has not laughed. —Chamfort
A hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning, while a 	
good cry is a wet wash. 
 —Puzant Thomajan
Laughter is the sun that 
drives winter from the
human face.     
    —Victor Hugo
Everyone smiles in the 
same language.
A sign of wisdom is 
cheerfulness.    	
One of the wonders of the world:  The power of a 
smile.    —Malcolm Forbes
We come into this world crying while all around 
us are smiling.  May we live that we go out of this 
world smiling while everybody around us is 
weeping.   —Persian saying
Smile to yourself until you have warmed your own 
heart with the sunshine of your cheery countenance.  
Then go out — and radiate your smile.     
    —Bruno Hagspiel
Cheerfulness removes the rust from the mind, 
lubricates our inward machinery, and enables us 
to do our work with fewer creaks and groans.  If 
people were cheerful, probably there wouldn’t be 
half the quarreling or a tenth of the wickedness there 
is.  Cheerful people live longest here on earth and 
longest afterwards in our hearts.
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