The Cheery Digest

A cheery quote

Seeking happiness outside ourselves is like waiting for sunshine in a cave facing north.

Tibetan saying

A quote...

“I used to think that anyone doing anything weird was weird. I suddenly realized that anyone doing anything weird wasn't weird at all and it was the people saying they were weird that were weird.” Paul McCartney.

So don't worry about being weird, basically.

A cheery quote...

'There is one thing one has to have: either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge.' Nietsche

Some advice from an expert ...

... for the Christmas period...

"Never eat more than you can lift." - Miss Piggy

Quotage...

'Better keep yourself clean and bright - you are the window through which you see the world.' George Bernard Shaw.

Another one we like - not cheery perhaps, but vital and thought-provoking - is this: 

'It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a sick society.' Krishnamurti

 

A quote ...

“Buy one get one for the same price as one” - John Lydon

A cheery autumnal quote ...

"Delicious autumn!  My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns." -   George Eliot

'E's got a t'riffic way with words, him.

(we know it's a lady really ...)

An appropriate Cheery quote

In honour of the Japanese story below ...

'My heroes are people like Picasso and Miro and people who at last really reach something in their old age, which they absolutely couldn't ever have done in their youth.' Robert Wyatt.

Wise words from Solzhenitsyn

As we bade farewell to the legendary writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn this month, we thought it would be nice to post up some of his words about being a cheery personage...

"A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy."

Words from Mlle de Beauvoir

I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom. - Simone de Beauvoir