smiles

Those who smile rather than rage
are always the stronger.

Japanese Proverb

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.  They are but trifles, to be sure;
but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

Joseph Addison
   

If a child smiles, if an adult smiles, that is very important.  If in our daily
lives we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it.  If we really know how to live, what better
way to start the day than with a smile?  Our smile affirms our awareness
and determination to live in peace and joy.  The source of a true smile
is an awakened mind.

Thich Nhat Hanh

      
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.  What we obtain too cheap,
we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.  I love the
person that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow.

Thomas Paine
  
If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love.
Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and
start grinning 'Good morning' at total strangers.

Maya Angelou
   

A smile costs nothing but gives much.  It enriches those who receive
without making poorer those who give.  It takes but a moment, but the memory of it sometimes lasts forever.  None is so rich or mighty that he cannot get along without it and none is so poor that he cannot be made
rich by it.  Yet a smile cannot be bought, begged, borrowed, or stolen,
for it is something that is of no value to anyone until it is given away.
Some people are too tired to give you a smile.  Give them one of yours,
as none needs a smile so much as he who has no more to give.

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Every time a person smiles, and much more when that person laughs,
it adds something to his or her fragment of life.

Laurence Sterne
    

    
It's the Songs you sing and the Smiles you wear
that make the Sunshine everywhere.

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A smile is the light in your window that tells others
that there is a caring, sharing person inside.

Denis Waitley
   

Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love,
a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.

Mother Teresa
   

Smile at each other, smile at
your wife, smile at your
husband, smile at your
children, smile at each other--
it doesn't matter who it is--
and that will help you
to grow up in greater
love for each other.

Mother Teresa
   

A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover
before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first-born babe,
and assures it of a mother's love.

Thomas C. Haliburton
    

   
Our smile will bring happiness to us and to those around us.  Even if
we spend a lot of money on gifts for everyone in our family, nothing
we buy could give them as much happiness as the gift of our awareness,
our smile.  And this precious gift costs nothing.

Thich Nhat Hanh
    

A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.

William Arthur Ward
   

If you see a friend without a smile; give him one of yours.

Proverb
   
    
The hardest thing you can do is smile when you are ill,
in pain, or depressed. But this no-cost remedy is a necessary
first half-step if you are to start on the road to recovery.

Allen Klein

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.  These are but trifles,
to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

Joseph Addison
    

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Nobody needs a smile so much as the one who has none to give.
So get used to smiling heart-warming smiles, and you will
spread sunshine in a sometimes-dreary world.

Lawrence G. Lovasik
    

One word or a pleasing smile is often enough to raise up a saddened and wounded soul.

Therese of Lisieux
   

    
You're never fully dressed without a smile.

Martin Charnin
    

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