Cheerfulness is a very great help in fostering the virtue of charity. Cheerfulness itself is a virtue.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.
Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.
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.
God has blessed me with the gift of cheerfulness.
Cheerfulness, sir, is the principle ingredient in the composition of health.
Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.
In my own life I know that my state of cheerfulness is a reliable gauge of my level of spiritual enlightenment at that moment. The more cheerful, happy, contented, and satisfied I am feeling, the more aware I am of my deep connection to Spirit.
So, to praise others for their virtues can but encourage one's own efforts.
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
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