![]() The teeth are smiling, but is the heart? ~African proverb ~Charles Reade, White Lies, 1857 (Chapter II) ~Terri Guillemetsīeauty is power: a smile is its sword. ~Robert Brault, Ī smile vanquishes loneliness, if only for a fleeting moment. How slight a nod it would take, how bare a smile, to give everyone you meet today a sense of worth. ~Mike Dolan, tweet, 2012Ī wink is a little piece of your heart, a type of smile, a special link. Sometimes it's just enough to smile sincerely. ~Author unknownĮvery smile makes you a day younger. Your day will go the way the corners of your mouth turn. ~"Through the Valley," Arthur's Illustrated Home Magazine, 1878Įvery scowling face also contains the shapes of engaging smiles, just waiting to be released. "Yes." Simply yes, said calmly and with a smile that did not fade from her lips a smile that lit her face from within like fire in the heart of an opal. ~Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, 1873 ![]() Let us not, then, be too chary of them, but scatter them freely as we go for life is too short to be frowned away. Of all life's blessings, none are cheaper or more easily dispensed than smiles. A smile, accompanied by a kind word, has been known to reclaim a poor outcast and change the whole current of a human life. Scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable. What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. ~Mabel Collins, In the Flower of Her Youth, 1883 This little ghost of a smile got into her heart and haunted her. Morse, "President's Address," Twentieth Annual Convention of the American Railway Engineering Association, 1919 March 18th No one likes a grouch or a crepehanger, or wants him around if they can help it. Curry, The Smile: If You Can Do Nothing Else You Can Smile, 1915Ī pleasant smile is the password to welcome and friendship - from your superior, your equal or your inferior in rank. It means sympathy, love, joy, fellowship, willingness to receive as well as willingness to give that which is good. A smile is a recognition of our own individuality, a joyous realization of our identity it manifests the attitude of our being toward our fellow-men, toward life and all things. Simple as a smile is, it reveals some of the deepest feelings of the human heart. Jackson Brown, Jr.'s mother, quoted in his book P.S. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day. Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. ~Evonne Hodges, from “A Smile Is…,” in Our Western World's Most Beautiful Poems, edited and published by John Campbell, World of Poetry Press, 1985 Curry, The Smile: If You Can Do Nothing Else You Can Smile, 1915 It was the deep, genuine, simple revelation of the heart of a child which he was able to keep through all the serious work of a man's life. There was no grin, that horrible mockery of a smile. The smile seemed to be there always as a bearing. He seemed to be one animated smile from the crown of his head to the soles of his feet. One of my most delightful remembrances is of an occasional glimpse of Dr. The robb'd that smiles steals something from the thief. Dayton Wegefarth (1885–1973), "The Bright Things of Life" ~Charles Reade, White Lies, 1857 (Chapter II)Ī bright cheery smile often gives us the strengthįor it lightens our load, as we travel the length Smile the second made his heart beat so he could feel it against his waistcoat. Miling himself by anticipation, it was his fate to draw from the lady a more exquisite smile than the last. What a snapshot is to your life, your life is to eternity, so wouldn't it be nice if eternity captured you smiling? ~Robert Brault, Ī smile is as good as a prayer. ~"Poor Richard Junior's Philosophy," The Saturday Evening Post, 1903, George Horace Lorimer, editor Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been. ~Henry James, The Wings of the Dove, 1902 When Milly smiled it was a public event - when she didn't it was a chapter of history. ~Walter Anderson, The Confidence Course, 1997 Have you ever noticed how easily puppies make human friends? Yet all they do is wag their tails and fall over. That costs the least, and does the most, is just a pleasant smile. The thing that goes the farthest toward making life worth while, Scott Richmond), given through her Medium "Water Lily," "Sunbeams for My Flowers," Ouina's Canoe, 1882
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