CHEERFULNESS, A COLLECTION OF LEFT-GREEN SAYINGS
Cheerfulness is powerful/ activates health-happiness/ like sunshine activates green leaves/
Never underestimate the power of cheerfulness…it’s so good, we need it baaaad! freesinger
ABCs…always be cheerful, calm, courageous…cheerfulness helps self & others to be happy…makes our cells feel good, do happy-healthy work…
Charles Darwin wrote, “happiness decidedly prevails (in human nature) since pleasurable sensations …stimulate the whole system to increase action. Hence it has come to pass that most or all sentient beings have been developed in such a manner through natural selection that pleasurable sensations serve as their habitual guides”. Shall we be happy?
Do we have the right to be happy while horrendous tragedies are happening…as in Rwanda, the Holocaust, Iraq, the Tsunami, WW1 & WW2, Global warming, Israel-Palestine, AIDs, sleeping sickness, malaria, wars & starvation…Yes, sadness & depression, do not help the suffering…good actions empowered by happiness help them.
A little at a time is a lot at the end of a day, week, month, year, lifetime…it accumulates…what is good?…
being cheerful…strong…thoughtful…loving-kind…free…doing good works…
Your heart is strong & loyal, take good care of it & it will take good care of you. Dr Rao
“You will soon receive good news of a personal nature…if you look for it”. (Fortune cookie + freesinger)
“Look & you will find it, what is unsought will go undetected”, Sophocles
“Chance is very powerful. Let your hook be always cast in life’s waters, in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.” Ovid (was not a vegetarian)
“When we are really honest with ourselves we must admit that our lives are all that really belong to us. So it is how we live our lives that determines the kind of person we are“…Cesar Chavez
“Freedom depends upon freethinkers“…Ruth Hurmence Green…& free-doers
“The world is my country…to do good is my religion“…Tom Paine
Democratia, even the word is beautiful…In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, & fathers bury sons…Heroditus
M.L.King wrote, “America’s problem in restructuring economic & political power…is that it is too conservative.”
Harriet Tubman, led more than 300 slaves to freedom on 19 perilous trips on the Underground Railway…her cheerful, courageous nature inspired them to continue when some became depressed, fearful, & weary.
“It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of Heaven…Yeshu (Jesus in Latin) That was a common way of expressing impossibility in Yeshu’s time.
Epicurus wrote that feelings of happiness or pain that accompany sense experiences are the ultimate good or evil…most to be prized are the pleasures of the mind, friendship & ataraxia (peace of mind & emotions)
Chorus of a song: Cheerfulness is powerful/ activates health-happiness/ like sunshine activates green leaves/ Cheerfulness makes our cells feel happy/ inspires them to be healthy// freesinger
December 23rd, 2005 at 12:07 am
Well, Freesinger, your advice in regard to Happiness, Cheerfulness, Optimism, and all the good stuff came at a very good time for me. I thank you, and I am sure others do also. By the way, Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays.
November 20th, 2008 at 1:13 pm
Wow these quotes are absolutely great. Thanks for sharing with the community.