SMILING QUOTES
quotations about smiles and smiling
A smile is the light in the window of your face that tells people you're home.
ANONYMOUS
The smiles of beauty are the tears of the purse.
ITALIAN PROVERB
There are many kinds of smiles, each having a distinct character; some announce goodness and sweetness, others betray sarcasm, bitterness, and pride; some soften the countenance by their languishing tenderness, others brighten by their spiritual vivacity. A beautiful smile is to the female countenance what the sunbeam is to the landscape; it embellishes an inferior face and redeems an ugly one.
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER
attributed, Day's Collacon
The best facelift is a smile.
JOHN MASON
You Can Be Your Best--Starting Today
You can only hold a smile for so long, after that it's just teeth.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
Invisible Monsters
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
THICH NHAT HANH
attributed, The Reiki Teachers Guidebook
Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.
ANONYMOUS
Oh no. Don't smile. You'll kill me. I stop breathing when you smile.
TESSA DARE
A Lady of Persuasion
Smile for me
And I'll become the girl you want to see
No, there's nothing that I can't be
If you'll just smile for me
OLIVIA NEWTON JOHN
"Smile For Me"
Smile
As you find a rhythm
Working you, slow mile by mile,
Into your proper haunt.
SEAMUS HEANEY
Casualty
Smiling is confusing, she thought. This is why I don't do it.
RAINBOW ROWELL
Fangirl
It only takes a split second to smile and forget, yet to someone that needed it, it can last a lifetime.
STEVE MARABOLI
Life, the Truth, and Being Free
Smiles are powerful orators, and may convey, though in silence, matters of great significance to the heart.
R. BURTON
attributed, Day's Collacon
Smiles form the channels of a future tear.
LORD BYRON
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
When life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile.
CARMELO ANTHONY
Twitter post, March 7, 2014
But owned that smile, if oft observed and near,
Waned in its mirth, and wither'd to a sneer.
LORD BYRON
Lara: A Tale
Smiling makes you appear more approachable. Interaction with others is easier and more enjoyable when smiles and laughs are shared, and these behaviours are contagious, making others feel better too, and make you a more appealing and attractive person to be around. This in turn will have a positive effect on your well-being.
HOLLY KONIG
"Seven reasons for you to laugh more often", Southland Sun, August 20, 2017
You're never fully dressed without a smile.
MARTIN CHARNIN
"You're Never Fully Dressed Without a Smile", Annie
A man I knew who lived upon a smile,
And well it fed him; he look'd plump and fair
EDWARD YOUNG
Night Thoughts
She smiled, and there it was again, that aching pressure in his chest. Love, or a heart attack. Kind of the same thing.
KRISTAN HIGGINS
Somebody to Love