Cheerfulness is God's own messenger to lighten our burdens and to make our times of joy even more bright and beautiful.

Have you noticed how, as soon as you can laugh over a vexation, the sting of it is gone?
And the best of it all is that you cannot be happy yourself without casting a little light, even though it be but reflected sunshine, into some other life.
William Dunbar, in 1479, said: "Be merry, man, and take not sair to mind The wavering of this wretched world of sorrow: To God be humble, to thy friend be kind, And with thy neighbor gladly lend and borrow; His chance to-night, it may be thine to-morrow! Be blyth in heart for any aventure, How oft with wise men it has been said aforow, Without gladness availes no treasure.".