#smiling

The muscles used to make a smile actually send a biochemical message to our nervous system that it is safe to relax the flight of freeze response. ↗

— Tara Brach

#smiling #life

Ah, what happiness it is to be with people who are all happy, to press hands, press cheeks, smile into eyes. ↗

— Katherine Mansfield

#happiness #happy-people #holding-hands #love #short-story

No matter how grouchy you're feeling, you'll find the smile more or less healing. It grows in a wreath all around the teeth thus preserving the face from congealing. ↗

— Anthony Euwer

#smiling #humor

Smiling always seems to annoy people more than actually insulting them. Or maybe I just have an annoying smile. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#humorous #insulting #smiling #humor

Withhold a smile only when the smile can hurt someone. Otherwise, let it bloom forth in a riot. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#harm #kindness #mercy #smile #smiling

When people are smiling they are most receptive to almost anything you want to teach them. ↗

— Allen Funt

#anything #most #people #receptive #smiling

I definitely use 'smiling while rapping' as a tool in the booth. I want to have fun while recording. ↗

— Macklemore

#definitely #fun #have fun #i #rapping

For a change, lady luck seemed to be smiling on me. Then again, maybe the fickle wench was just lulling me into a false sense of security while she reached for a rock. ↗

— Timothy Zahn

#change #false #false sense #fickle #into

250,000 people turned up in Dublin to cheer me on an open-topped bus along O'Connell St after my world title winning fight in 1985. I'll never forget the sea of smiling faces that greeted me that day. ↗

— Barry McGuigan

#along #bus #cheer #day #dublin

I'm always annoyed about why black people have to bear the brunt of everybody else's contempt. If we are not totally understanding and smiling, suddenly we're demons. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#always #annoyed #bear #black #brunt