“Cheerfulness is…the best promoter of health.”
Joseph Addison (1672–1719) politician, writer and playwright
No. 387 (24 May 1712).
The Spectator (1711–1714)
“The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.”
Variant of this quote "The best way to cheer yourself is to cheer somebody else up." is misattributed to Albert Einstein.
Source: According Quote Investigator Mark Twain did write a version of this saying in a personal notebook in 1896, and it was published by 1935 in “Mark Twain’s Notebook”. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/12/21/cheer-somebody/
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