#smile

Smile at strangers and you just might change a life. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#compassion #inspirational #smile #strangers #change

A smile is an inexpensive way to change your looks. ↗

— Clemmie Galati

#change

He was one of those people who completely changes when they smile. Like the sun had come out. ↗

— Caroline Green

#one-of-those-people #smile #sun-coming-out #change

Switch on your smile, laugh without reason. You control happiness, you change the world. ↗

— Roel van Sleeuwen

#change

You want to make the world a better place? Start a chain reaction, SMILE TO SOMEONE TODAY! ↗

— Martin Suarez

#action-reaction #change #smile #change

Argument need not be heated; it can be punctuated with courteous smiles - or sympathetic tears. ↗

— J. Sidlow Baxter

#arguement #communication #conflict #disagreement #smile

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort. ↗

— Humphry Davy

#duties #given #great #habitually #heart

Her eyes were of different colors, the left as brown as autumn, the right as gray as Atlantic wind. Both seemed alive with questions that would never be voiced, as if no words yet existed with which to frame them. She was nineteen years old, or thereabouts; her exact age was unknown. Her face was as fresh as an apple and as delicate as blossom, but a marked depression in the bones beneath her left eye gave her features a disturbing asymmetry. Her mouth never curved into a smile. God, it seemed, had withheld that possibility, as surely as from a blind man the power of sight. He had withheld much else. Amparo was touched—by genius, by madness, by the Devil, or by a conspiracy of all these and more. She took no sacraments and appeared incapable of prayer. She had a horror of clocks and mirrors. By her own account she spoke with Angels and could hear the thoughts of animals and trees. She was passionately kind to all living things. She was a beam of starlight trapped in flesh and awaiting only the moment when it would continue on its journey into forever.” (p.33) ↗

— Tim Willocks

#apple #asymmetry #atlantic #autumn #blind-man

I've always been super aware that we could all die at any moment. This ceiling could fall. I could trip and land on this pen I'm holding. I could choke on my cold pasta lunch. I could be attacked by that pigeon eying me from my window sill. I could be shot...by a stranger...who lost something in their heart. Remember death is real. It's not scary. Living is the thing to care about. Don't hold grudges. Smile and make others smile as often as possible. Don't let jerks run the world. ↗

— Colleen A.F. Venable

#laugh #smile #death

Whever I came into the room, she'd light up, so happy to see me. No one ever in the course of my entire life was ever as happy to see me as she was. Looking back, now, I realize that you only ever need one person who lights up that way when you enter a room. One person is all it takes to give a kid confidence. ↗

— Adriana Trigiani

#love #smiles #life