Cheerfulness means a contented spirit, a pure heart, a kind and loving disposition; it means humility and ~ charity, a generous appreciation of others, and a modest opinion of self.
The soul is healed by being with children.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
It’s important that what thoughts you are feeding into your mind because your thoughts create your belief and experiences. You have positive thoughts and you have negative ones too. Nurture your mind with positive thoughts: kindness, empathy, compassion, peace, love, joy, humility, generosity, etc. The...
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Roy T. Bennett
As you grow up, always tell the truth, do no harm to others, and don't think you are the most important being on earth. Rich or poor, you then can look anyone in the eye and say, 'I'm probably no better than you, but I'm...
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Harper Lee
Humility is perfect quietness of heart. It is to expect nothing, to wonder at nothing that is done to me, to feel nothing done against me. It is to be at rest when nobody praises me, and when I am blamed or despised. It is...
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Andrew Murray
Those who travel to mountain-tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion.
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Robert Macfarlane
More Quotes By William Makepeace Thackeray
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?
Here is a minute. It may be my love is dead, but here is a minute to kneel over the grave and pray by it.
It was in the reign of George II. that the above-named personages lived and quarrelled ; good or bad, handsome or ugly, rich or poor, they are all equal now
There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen to write.
