Favorite Inspirational Quotes

Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

Joseph Addison

I sure would love some of that steady and perpetual serenity.  Probably the closest I come is when I do gratitude exercises and look at the beauty around me.  During those times I do feel some serenity.  I’m also serene in the knowledge that whatever I’m going through will pass, whether or not I’m particularly pleased with the circumstances at the time.

Cheerfulness, on the other hand, as a continuous thing eludes me.  I have alwasy been a serious person.  Who knows?  Maybe that is due to my intended career as a child.  I was going to be a scientist.   We all know scientists are serious people, right?  So I should be serious and not a cheerful empty head.

Anyway, these days I treasure the calm in my world.  With only one child still at home that gives me more chance for that calm, at least till the others call with some problem.  That calm gives me some serenity.  Maybe abundant cheerfulness eludes me but peace is making it’s way into my heart.

What about you?  How do you stay cheerful?  Does it fill you with serenity?

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