Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

It's a divine art to be cheerful.

If there is one thing that is really cheerful in the world, it is cheerfulness. I have noticed it often. And I have noticed that when a man is right down cheerful, he is seldom unhappy for the time being. Such is the nature of man.

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

God has blessed me with the gift of cheerfulness.

Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.

Let cheerfulness on happy fortune wait.

Religious people are happier.

I'm very optimistic. I'm happy-go-lucky, I guess. I try to be.

My baseline function is I'm usually really happy and optimistic. I think I really genuinely like being alive, and I've got a spring in my step - that's what I've been like all my life.

Whether we're happy with our circumstances or not, giving God praise is so important.

Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks.

God is glorified, not by our groans, but our thanksgivings; and all good thought and good action claim a natural alliance with good cheer.

When joy and prayer are married, their first born child is gratitude.

It is a comely fashion to be glad; Joy is the grace we say to God.

Good cheer is a great lubricant; it oils all of life's machinery.

What comfort there is in a cheerful spirit! how the heart leaps up to meet a sunshiny face, a merry tongue, an even temper, and a heart which either naturally, or, what is better, from conscientious principle, has learned to take all things on their bright side, believing that the Giver of life being all-perfect Love, the best offering we can make to Him is to enjoy to the full what He sends of good, and bear what He allows of evil!

You'll never see a happy ungrateful person.

There is no joy without gratitude.

Start and finish your day with laughter, and you will see, by and by, in between these two more and more laughter starts happening. And the more laughing you become, the more religious.

We must be bright and cheerful. Long faces do not make religion. Religion should be the most joyful thing in the world, because it is the best.

There can be no joy without gratitude.

As long as thanks is possible, then joy is always possible.

Some people habitually wear sadness, like a garment, and think it a becoming grace. God loves a cheerful worshipper.

Gratitude is the root of joy.

I was always a very happy, optimistic person.