A Quote by Miguel de Cervantes

Health and cheerfulness make beauty

Miguel de Cervantes

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Beauty Cheerfulness Health Make

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Miguel de Cervantes
Spanish - Novelist
September 29, 1547 - April 23, 1616

William James

Exercise and application produce order in our affairs, health of body, cheerfulness of mind, and these make us precious to our friends

Thomas Jefferson

The largely objective character of beauty is further indicated by the fact that to a considerable extent beauty is the expression of health. A well and harmoniously developed body, tense muscles, an elastic and finely toned skin, bright eyes, grace and animation of carriage- all these things which are essential to beauty are the conditions of health.

Havelock Ellis

Cheerfulness has a directly beneficial influence upon health.

Grenville Kleiser

Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.

Joseph Addison

Cheerfulness, sir, is the principle ingredient in the composition of health.

Arthur Murphy

[Grateful] Cheerfulness is health; its opposite, [ungrateful] melancholy, is disease.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

Joseph Addison

The sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, to look round cheerfully, and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there. If such conduct does not make you soon feel cheerful, nothing else on that occasion can. So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end, and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.

William James

Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, - an open and noble temper.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Economy is the parent of integrity, of liberty, and of ease, and the beauteous sister of temperance, of cheerfulness and health.

Samuel Johnson

Actions seems to follow feeling, but really actions and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not. Thus the sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there.

William James

Cheerfulness is full of significance: it suggests good health, a clear conscience, and a soul at peace with all human nature.

Charles Kingsley

Our society does reward beauty on the outside over health on the inside. Women must not be blamed for choosing short-term beauty "fixes" that harm our long-term health, since our life spans are inverted under the beauty myth, and there is no great social or economic incentive for women to live a long time.