How to be Cheerful

How to be cheerful, do you say,
When the wind is cold and the skies are gray?
How to be cheerful? Just one way:
Forget yourself for a while today.

Never mind self and your irksome cares.
Somebody else greater burden bears.
Stretch out a helping hand and play
The friend to all who may chance your way.

You'll never be cheerful sitting there
Sorrowing over the hurts your bear,
For never a joyous hour is known
By the man who thinks of himself alone.

How to be cheerful?  Scatter cheer;
Share your life with your neighbors here;
Encourage the weary and comfort the sad
And you'll find more joy than you've ever had.

 

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quote by Eleanor Roosevelt

 You gain strength

courage, and confidence

by every experience in which

you really stop

to look fear in the face.

You are able to say to yourself,

"I lived through this horror.

I can take the next thing

that comes along."

....You must do the thing you

think you cannot do.

 

more random quotes

It is only important to love the world...to regard the world and ourselves and all beings with love, admiration and respect.  --  Hermann Hesse

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.  I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.  --  Louisa May Alcott

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.  --  Lao-Tse

To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle.  Every cubic inch of space is a miracle.  --  Walt Whitman

To know the truth is easy; but, ah, how difficult to follow it.  --  from the chinese

In the mountains of truth you never climb in vain.  --  Friedrich Nietzsche

 

 

 

If

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all me doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream--and not make dreams your master;
If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those tow impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knave to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build'em up with wornout tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on";

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run--
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!

 

Plea for Strength

Grant me the fighting spirit, grant me the rugged heart--
Grant me the inner courage in battle to do my part.
Whether the path be easy or thorny and rough and long,
Let me press on to the evening, willing and brave and strong.

Not from the cares that try me, would I be forever free.
All that I ask is patience for whatever my task may be;
Patience to wait the little brief while, till the work is done,
And the needed strength, and the courage, for the struggle that can be won.

Grant me the fighting spirit, and fashion me stout of will,
Arouse in me that strange something that fearfulness cannot chill.
Let me not whimper at hardship! This is the gift I ask:
Not ease and escape from trial, but srtength for the doubtful task.

quote by Anonymous

Every mountain

means

at least

two valleys.