James Freeman Clarke Quotes

There is inestimable blessing in a cheerful spirit. When the soul throws its windows wide open, letting in the sunshine, and presenting to all who see it the evidence of its gladness, it is not only happy, but it has an unspeakable power of doing good.

Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.

With prayer, one can go on cheerfully and even happily. Without prayer, how grim a journey!

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

My worst day, I'm just going to try and smile.

We all have bad days, but one thing is true; no cloud is so dark that the sun can't shine through.

Even if we can't be happy, we must always be cheerful.

It's a divine art to be cheerful.

Behind every dark cloud there is an every-shining sun. Just wait. In time, the cloud will pass.

HOPE sustains us through despair. Hope teaches that there is reason to rejoice...even when all seems dark around us.

Be cheerful in all that you do. Live joyfully. Live happily. Live enthusiastically, knowing that God does not dwell in gloom and melancholy, but in light and love.

Everything is going to hell, but we should smile all the way.

Even if we lose the wealth of thousands, and our life is sacrificed, we...should keep smiling and be cheerful keeping our faith in God and Truth.

My religion of life is always to be cheerful.

I teach you joy, not sadness. I teach you playfulness, not seriousness. I teach you love and laughter, because to me there is nothing more sacred than love and laughter, and there is nothing more prayerful than playfulness. I don't teach you renunciation, as it has been taught down the ages. I teach you: Rejoice, rejoice, and rejoice again! Rejoicing should be the essential core of my sannyasins.

I am a happy person and I choose to be a positive person. I think some people think my life has been tragic and there have been these horrible dramas but things really have been, and are, fine.

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.

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

If in any case I did find error in that which I have collected from my natural understanding, I should count it good fortune, since I enjoy life, and endeavour to pass it not in weeping and sighing, but in peace, joy, and cheerfulness, and from time to time climb thereby a step higher.

I don't believe in mistakes. Everything belongs, and, as the homies say, 'It's all good.'

My natural state is to be happy. I'm naturally buoyant. I wake up feeling, 'What a great morning!' I've had some tragedy in my life, absolutely, but I don't know one human being who hasn't. You either learn from it and become empowered by it, or you become a victim to it. It's life, after all.

I've always loved life, irrespective of all the ups and downs that have filled my journey.

At the end of the day, my optimistic personality always takes over.

I always try to find something funny in any situation.