146 Smile Quotes

In a world that can sometimes feel overwhelming, a simple smile has the power to uplift spirits and spread positivity. Whether shared with a friend, a stranger, or enjoyed in solitude, smiles are a universal gesture of happiness and warmth. To celebrate the joy that a smile can bring, we’ve curated a collection of the top 146 smile quotes. These pearls of wisdom from a variety of authors and thinkers remind us of the beauty and significance of smiling, inspiring us to embrace everyday moments with a little more joy and gratitude. Dive into this compilation and let the power of a smile brighten your day!

1. “Peace begins with a smile..” - Mother Teresa

2. “What does my smile look like now? Vivi wondered. Can you reclaim that free-girl smile, or is it like virginity- once you loose it, that's it?” - Rebecca Wells

3. “Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.” - Thich Nhat Hanh

4. “If you smile when you are alone, then you really mean it.” - Andy Rooney

5. “A smile remains the most inexpensive gift I can bestow on anyone and yet its powers can vanquish kingdoms.” - Og Mandino

6. “You can only hold a smile for so long, after that it's just teeth.” - Chuck Palahniuk

7. “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

8. “Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family.” - Mother Teresa

9. “Well, that's an evil smile...” - James Patterson

10. “Oh no. Don't smile. You'll kill me. I stop breathing when you smile.” - Tessa Dare

11. “He continues to smile expectantly. I take a step back. I don't want to catch whatever he has. He is a disturbing out-of-uniform Santa.” - Augusten Burroughs

12. “He smiled like he couldn't help it. She couldn't believe it. He was actally smiling, teeth and all. Had she ever seen him smile before? No, she realized, because right now, it was such a jarring thing to witness that for a moment it felt as though she was sharing the car with a stranger.” - Kelly Creagh

13. “The prospect Smiler was a manic farmer. Few men I think can have been as unfortunate as he; for on the one hand he was a melancholic with a loathing for mankind, on the other, some paralysis had twisted his mouth into a permanent and radiant smile. So everyone he met, being warmed by his smile, would shout him a happy greeting. And beaming upon them with his sunny face he would curse them all to hell.” - Laurie Lee

14. “when he smiles it's as if you'd just told him the first joke on earth.” - Mitch Albom

15. “I always say, if you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin to the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips.” - Robert Jordan

16. “And metaphors like cats behind your smile,Each one wound up to purr,each one a pride,Each one a fine gold beast you've hid inside (...)” - Ray Bradbury

17. “A tiny company, ‘the aware’, we have taken up civilization’s fiercest weapons to fight against the dark army of the masses whose leaders are hunger and stupidity. These weapons are the smile and the lie.” - Iwan Goll

18. “إن السعادة تنتقل بالعدوى ..لا تنتظر عدوى أحد .. كن حاملاً لهذا الميكروب” - أنيس منصور

19. “Dare to BeWhen a new day begins, dare to smile gratefully.When there is darkness, dare to be the first to shine a light.When there is injustice, dare to be the first to condemn it.When something seems difficult, dare to do it anyway.When life seems to beat you down, dare to fight back.When there seems to be no hope, dare to find some.When you’re feeling tired, dare to keep going.When times are tough, dare to be tougher.When love hurts you, dare to love again.When someone is hurting, dare to help them heal.When another is lost, dare to help them find the way.When a friend falls, dare to be the first to extend a hand.When you cross paths with another, dare to make them smile.When you feel great, dare to help someone else feel great too.When the day has ended, dare to feel as you’ve done your best.Dare to be the best you can –At all times, Dare to be!” - Steve Maraboli

20. “It only takes a split second to smile and forget, yet to someone that needed it, it can last a lifetime.” - Steve Maraboli

21. “Withhold a smile only when the smile can hurt someone. Otherwise, let it bloom forth in a riot.” - Vera Nazarian

22. “تبسمك في وجه أخيك صدقة، وأمرك بالمعروف صدقة ونهيك عن المنكر صدقة، وإرشادك الرجل في أرض الضلال لك صدقة، ونصرك الرجل الرديء البصر لك صدقة، وإماطتك الحجر والشوك العظم عن الطريق لك صدقةSmiling in your brother’s face is an act of charity. So is enjoining good and forbidding evil, giving directions to the lost traveller, aiding the blind and removing obstacles from the path.(Graded authentic by Ibn Hajar and al-Albani: Hidaayat-ur-Ruwaah, 2/293)” - Anonymous

23. “Magie ist das, was wir tief in uns spüren, wenn wir lächeln” - Christoph Marzi

24. “But, my God, it's so beautiful when the boy smiles” - Anna Nalick

25. “Why be alone when we can be together babyYou can make my life worthwhileAnd I can make you start to smile” - Mr. Big

26. “He was warm, partly because he had on many layers, and partly because boys whoa re part wolf and part wind do not get cold.” - Dave Eggers

27. “My spirit. This is a new thought. I'm not sure exactly what it means, but it suggests I'm a fighter. In a sort of brave way. It's not as if I'm never friendly. Okay, maybe I don't go around loving everybody I meet, maybe my smiles are hard to come by, but i do care for some people.” - Suzanne Collins

28. “it's a smile, it's a kiss, it's a sip of wine ... it's summertime!” - Kenny Chesney

29. “The groom always smiles proudly because he's convinced he's accomplished something quite wonderful. The bride smiles because she's been able to convince him of it.” - Judith McNaught

30. “Then Frederica went towards him, holding out her hand, and he raised his eyes from Felix’s eager countenance, and smiled at her, causing Mr. Moreton to suffer a shock. It was not at all the sort of smile with which his lordship beguiled his flirts, but something warmer and more intimate. Good God! mentally ejaculated Mr. Moreton. Sits the wind in that quarter?” - Georgette Heyer

31. “You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun.” - Al Capone

32. “Please don't wait until the doctors tell you that you are going to have a baby to begin to take care of it. It is already there. Whatever you are, whatever you do, your baby will get it. Anything you eat, any worries that are on your mind will be for him or her. Can you tell me that you cannot smile? Think of the baby, and smile for him, for her, for the future generations. Please don't tell me that a smile and your sorrow just don't go together. It's your sorrow, but what about your baby? It's not his sorrow, its not her sorrow.” - Thich Nhat Hanh

33. “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

34. “Song of myselfSmile O voluptuous cool-breath'd earth! Earth of the slumbering and liquid trees! Earth of departed sunset--earth of the mountains misty-topt! Earth of the vitreous pour of the full moon just tinged with blue! Earth of shine and dark mottling the tide of the river! Earth of the limpid gray of clouds brighter and clearer for my sake! Far-swooping elbow'd earth--rich apple-blossom'd earth! Smile, for your lover comes.” - Walt Whitman

35. “You've got to S-M-I-L-ETo be H-A-Double-P-Y” - Shirley Temple

36. “... have a smile for everyone you meet and a plan to kill them.” - Brad Thor

37. “He smiled, and suddenly she knew that his words were true. Everything would be all right. Maybe not today and maybe not tomorrow, but soon. Tragedy couldn't coexist in a world with one of Colin's smiles.” - Julia Quinn

38. “...and he smiled a lot. The smile did not mean that he was happy. It meant he was stronger than most people, and that he intended to take advantage of it.” - Michael Cadnum

39. “Nothing shakes the smiling heart.” - Santosh Kalwar

40. “Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, alistening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, allof which have the potential to turn a life around.” - Leo F. Buscaglia

41. “If I can see pain in your eyes then share with me your tears. If I can see joy in your eyes then share with me your smile.” - Santosh Kalwar

42. “The saddest line you scraped in your diary was not that you cried but those moments when we both shared smile.” - Santosh Kalwar

43. “People with dimple have a divine role in this universe: smile!” - Toba Beta

44. “I was smiling yesterday,I am smiling today and I will smile tomorrow.Simply because life is too short to cry for anything.” - Santosh Kalwar

45. “Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone.” - Michael Jackson

46. “If you haven't seen your wife smile at a traffic cop, you haven't seen her smile her prettiest.” - Kin Hubbard

47. “The pimp has a grin, never a smile.” - Jean Genet

48. “He smiled and bent forward, a hand on each knee, his truculence gleaming through his smile like a stone under water.” - Paula Fox

49. “Show Dr. Princi your teeth. That's right, let's see 'em all. Christ, Sparks, is that your tongue or are you swallowing a squirrel? Keep moving -” - Thomas Harris

50. “I am intrigued by the smile upon your face, and the sadness within your eyes” - Jeremy Aldana

51. “I like it when my mother smiles. And I especially like it when I make her smile.” - Adriana Trigiani

52. “I silently smiled at my incessant good fortune.” - Henry David Thoreau

53. “She tried to act as though it were nothing to go to the library alone. But her happiness betrayed her. Her smile could not be restrained, and it spread from her tightly pressed mouth, to her round cheeks, almost to the hair ribbons tied in perky bows over her ears.” - Maud Hart Lovelace

54. “I looked at it [revolver] as if it reminded me of a crime I had committed with an irrepressible smile such as rises sometimes to people’s lips in the face of great catastrophes which are beyond their grasp, the smile that comes at times on certain women’s faces while they are saying they regret the harm they have done. It is the smile of nature quietly and proudly asserting its natural right to kill.” - Anais Nin

55. “And enigmatic smile is worth ten pages of dialog.” - Connie Brockway

56. “A smile is the best way to get away with trouble even if it’s a fake one.” - Masashi Kishimoto

57. “People aren't just ants rushing around over a crust of bread. Every life, no matter how isolated, touches hundreds of others. It's up to us to decide if those micro connections are positive or negative. But whichever we decide, it does impact the ones we deal with. One word can give someone the strength they needed at that moment or it can shred them down to nothing. A single smile can turn a bad moment good. And one wrong outburst or word could be the tiny push that causes someone to slip over the edge into destruction.” - Sherrilyn Kenyon

58. “I've been waiting for you all night and day,' she said.Froi shivered. He realised that the words came from Quintana the ice maiden. Realised, as he felt his face heating up, that the idea of this Quintana waiting for him with excitement spoke to parts of him he believed to be dormant. And then she winked.'Did I do that right?' she asked. Her smile was lopsided and he saw a glimpse of the teeth.And Froi imagined that he would follow her to the ends of the earth.” - Melina Marchetta

59. “Science teaches to think but love teaches to smile.” - Santosh Kalwar

60. “It was the first smile of my life. Of course, that is a ridiculous thing to say; I had been smiled at often, the big man had smiled at me not a minute since. And yet I say: it was the first smile, because it was the first that ever went straight into me like a needle too thin to be seen.” - Carol Birch

61. “Are you going to be nice to me now?""I'm always nice to you." Sure. Law ground his chin into Tom's groin, makingTom jump."Why would I suddenly start being nice to you?" Law said. "You put out for an asshole. That guy is still here.” - Jez Morrow

62. “I looked at myself in that window, oblivious to all the people around me and I stared and smiled that particular smile. You know that smile that seems to knock you and tell you how pathetic you are? That's the smile I was smiling.” - Markus Zusak

63. “Sweetest smile is made saddest tear-drop!” - Sir Edwin Arnold

64. “Staring at my outstretched pinky questioningly his perfect lips twitched into a smile. Pinky promise?” - Natalie Valdes

65. “Smile is the vainest thing you can wear without costing you anything” - bheng927

66. “Never in LIfe will you disappoint yourself if you stay true to you!” - Nicety

67. “Her smile, I'm sure, burnt Rome to the ground.” - Mark Z. Danielewski

68. “You shouldn’t never regret something that made you smile” - Bei Maejor

69. “Stamp, your name is to be Laura. I'm sharing my name with you. I'm putting my power into you and you must do my work. Don't listen to anyone but me. You are to be my command laid on my enemy. you'll make a hole in him through which he'll drip away until he runs dry. As he drips out darkness, we'll smile together, me inside, you outside. We'll crush him between our smiles.” - Margaret Mahy

70. “If you've got nothing to dance about, find a reason to sing.” - Melody Carstairs

71. “No matter where life takes me, you'll find me with a smile. Presumed to be happy, always laughing like a child. I never thought life could be this sweet! It's got me cheesing from cheek to cheek!” - Mac Miller

72. “Valkyrie Cain got out of the passenger side. She zipped upher black jacket against the cold, and joined Skulduggery as hewalked up to the front door. She glanced at him, and saw that he was smiling."Stop doing that,” she sighed.“Stop doing what?” Skulduggery responded in that gloriously velvet voice of his.“Stop smiling. The person we want to talk to lives in the only dark house on a bright street. That’s not a good sign.”“I didn’t realise I was smiling,” he said. They stopped at the door, and Skulduggery made a concerted effort to shift his features. His mouth twitcheddownwards. “Am I smiling now?”“No.”“Excellent,” he said, and the smile immediately sprang back up.” - Derek Landy

73. “The smile upon my lips, 
It will surely never die 
As I'm waiting here for you 
until you're by my side.” - Freida Martinez

74. “And then there's the sickness I feel from looking at legs I can't touch, or at lips that don't smile at me. Or hips that don't reach for me. And hearts that don't beat for me.” - Markus Zusak

75. “A beautiful smile without any reason is the smile of the existence!” - Mehmet Murat ildan

76. “You've got a lot of choices. If getting out of bed in the morning is a chore and you're not smiling on a regular basis, try another choice.” - Steven D. Woodhull

77. “Smile awhile and while you smile - another smiles, and soon there are miles and miles of smiles and life's worth while because you smile.” - Kathleen J. Edgar

78. “You'll find that life is still worthwhile, if you just smile.” - Charlie Chaplin

79. “The face of a truly happy man seldom lacks smiles.” - Ogwo David Emenike

80. “Tiger Lily made an attempt at a smile. After having felt the need to glower at other children for most of her life, smiles never came easily to her face. But this one was half all right."I miss you already," he said.Tiger Lily wanted to say it back. But she held on to the words greedily, too caught in the habit of keeping herself a secret. And Peter-half sadly, half-expectantly-let her go.” - Jodi Lynn Anderson

81. “Believe me. Your hardship, tears and sorrows you are facing now are the training of your spirit. The strength you learn from there brings you more love and smiles in your future. Wherever you are, love all the people around you like your family. then you are not alone anymore.” - Hiroko Sakai

82. “You dance love, and you dance joy, and you dance dreams. And I know if I can make you smile by jumping over a couple of couches or running through a rainstorm, then I'll be very glad to be a song and dance man.” - Gene Kelly

83. “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

84. “There was a smile dancing on his lips, although it was a wary smile, for the world is a bigger place than a little graveyard on a hill; and there would be dangers in it and mysteries, new friends to make, old friends to rediscover, mistakes to be made and many paths to be walked before he would, finally, return to the graveyard or ride with the Lady on the broad back of her great grey stallion.” - Neil Gaiman

85. “No matter how fleeting Your smile is,Your smile is the very beginningOf your wisdom-light.” - Sri Chinmoy

86. “A journey of a thousand mile begins with a SMiLE” - Bernard Kelvin Clive

87. “Look at your heart-flower and smile.You will be able to solve your most pressing problems.” - Sri Chinmoy

88. “So, he, uhm, all ac/ac, or a little ac/dc?" she asked, blushing, and Chase's grin about swallowed his face."He claims to be ac/dc," he said, watching her face light up completely.” - Amy Lane

89. “There are two days in the year that you cannot do anything: YESTERDAY & TOMORROW: Only TODAY you can Be Happy, Smile, Dream, Love, Feel, & Be Thankful…” - Pablo

90. “Many people experience the travesty of regret in their end days; the realization that nothing held them back, that nothing was in their way, that there is no one to blame, only themselves. Don't just sit by waiting for your life to happen, make it happen! Don’t just hope your dreams will come alive, breathe life into them! Don't let your fear help you birth a well-nourished regret, take action today! At the end of the day, at the end of the year, at the end of your life, live in such a manner that you can hold your head up high, smile, and be proud of a life well lived.” - Steve Maraboli

91. “Max." Fang let go of my hand. "Right now, it's really all about—us." He swooped down to the right in a big semicircle, ending facing me. Slowly we climbed upward, until we were almost vertical, flying straight up to the sun. While carefully synchronizing our wings—they almost touched—Fang leaned in, gently put one hand behind my neck, and kissed me. It was just about as close to heaven as I'll ever get, I guess. I closed my eyes, lost in the feeling of flying and kissing and being with the one person in the world I completely,utterly trusted. When we finally broke apart, we looked down at the others, who were way far below us now. Angel was shading her eyes, looking up at us with a big smile. She was sitting on a dolphin's back, and I hoped soon someone would explain to the dolphin that he shouldn't let Angel take advantage of his good nature. Still looking up at us, Angel gave us a big thumbs-up. "She approves," Fang said with a hint of amusement."Jeez," I wondered aloud. "Is that a good thing or a bad thing?” - James Patterson

92. “Very slowly using two fingers, Annabeth drew her dagger. Instead of dropping it, she tossed it as far as she could into the water. Octavian made a squeaking sound. "What was that for? I didn't say toss it! That could've been evidence. Or spoils of war!"Annabeth tried for a dumb-blonde smile, like: Oh, silly me. Nobody who knew her would have been fooled. But Octavian seemed to buy it. He huffed in exasperation. "You other two..." He pointed his blade a Hazel and Piper. "Put your weapons on the dock. No funny bus--"All around the Romans, Charleston Harbor erupted like a Las Vegas fountain putting on a show. When the wall of seawater subsided, the three Romans were in the bay, spluttering and frantically trying to stay afloat in their armor. Percy stood on the dock, holding Annabeth's dagger. "You dropped this," he said, totally poker-faced.” - Rick Riordan

93. “Teeth aren't pearly, until you smile.” - Anthony Liccione

94. “You should step in my shoesWalk for a whileand maybe you will see how hard it isto hold back the tears and fake a smile” - Elizabeth Panos

95. “Girls are always at their best smiling.” - Clamp

96. “Laughing in the face of danger doesn't negate the fear, it simply enables you to smile at it.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

97. “Pete offered tobacco and paper, but Claude brought out his cigarettes and they both decided to try those. Pete provided the match. When he had their cigarettes burning strongly he turned to look back at the road, then straight up ahead. "We'll get there for supper if we get there," he said, and Claude laughed. Pete was a young man, but had a wild old grin stretched all out of shape in the corners and punched full of holes.” - Douglas Woolf

98. “He answered with a smile. The darkest and most malignant I had ever seen, too strong to be voluntary. The door, I thought. The door. But I didn't dare turn to it, in case it wasn't there.” - Helen Oyeyemi

99. “A smile is the only infectious affliction everyone is encouraged to spread.” - Omar Kiam

100. “You act like you're okay,Like everything is just fine.But you can't hide a frown,And smile at the same time.” - Mimi Shannon

101. “Joshua se quedó asombrado. Pero no tan asombrado como yo por lo que acababa de decir. No hacía ni veinte horas que había plantado a Sven en el altar, ¿y ya quería salir con un tío sólo para verle reír?” - David Safier

102. “Look back, and smile on perils past!” - Walter Scott

103. “The greatest weapon that one can have is a simple...smile.” - Lionel Suggs

104. “Madoka: I want to erase the tears of all those who trusted in hope. I want them to be left with a smile on their faces.” - Magica Quartet

105. “We tried not to smile, for smiling only encourages men to bore you and waste your time.” - Sheila Heti

106. “To fight discouragement, remind yourself of the basics: I can write.I have the opportunity to do so. I love what I write. Now smile and be thankful.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

107. “An honest smile is an icebreaker.” - Toba Beta

108. “A breeze, a forgotten summer, a smile, all can fit into a storefront window.” - Dejan Stojanovic

109. “For a moment at least, be a smile on someone else’s face.” - Dejan Stojanovic

110. “The smile which you wear today has healing in it, so smile BIG!” - Anita R. Sneed-Carter

111. “To risk life to save a smile on a face of a woman or a child is the secret of chivalry.” - Dejan Stojanovic

112. “The truest smiles are those which spread across our faces when no one's watching us.” - Minhal Mehdi

113. “We smile but I want more. I want her to hug me.” - M.J. Hayland

114. “I laugh with them because it is one of the worst things to be in a room full of people and not laughting when everybody else is.” - M.J. Hayland

115. “Dignified in what she does, when she sings the smile that she brings to all of you unaware of what's to come, I said tell me what's to come.” - Tegan Quin

116. “Time to get a go on this drop-dead-gorgeous morning.” - Coco J. Ginger

117. “I'm wearing this fake smile.” - Daae ALF

118. “Argument need not be heated; it can be punctuated with courteous smiles - or sympathetic tears.” - J. Sidlow Baxter

119. “My dogs have been the reason I have woken up every single day of my life with a smile on my face.” - Jennifer Skiff

120. “He shook his head, just looking at me. - "What?" I asked.- "Nothing" he said.- "Why are you looking at me like that?"Augustus half smiled. "Because you`re beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence." A brief awkward silence ensued. Augustus plowed through: "I mean, particularly given that, as you so deliciously pointed out, all of this will end in oblivion and everything."I kind of scoffed or sighed or exhaled in a way that was vaguely coughy and then said, "I`m not beau-"- "You are like a millennial Natalie Portman. Like V for Vendetta Natalie Portman."- "Never seen it."- "Really?" he asked. "Pixie-haired gorgeous girl dislikes authority and can`t help but fall for a boy she knows is trouble. It`s your autobiography, so far as I can tell."His every syllable flirted. Honestly, he kind of turned me on. I didn`t even know that guys could turn me on - not, like, in real life.” - John Green, The Fault In Our Stars

121. “Even though I felt like crying, I did my very best to smile.” - Kristen Ashley

122. “Joy passed, but happiness never completely disappeared; a touch of it would always remain to remind one it had been there. It was happiness that made one smile, then.” - Anne Holm

123. “A smile is an inexpensive way to change your looks.” - Clemmie Galati

124. “It always looked to me like she was smiling. In fact, I know she was. Lots if things smile, like a flower to the sun. And one thing sure. I knew that just like I could smile to see Pinky, she sure could smile to see me.” - Robert Newton Peck

125. “You hand fits in mine like its made to be but bear this in mind it was meant to be and im joining up the dots with the freckles on you cheeks and it all makes sense to me. I know you've never loved the crinkles by your eyes when you smile you've never loved your stomach or your thighs and the dimples in your back at the bottom of your spine but I love them endlessly.I won't let these little things slip out of my mouth but if i do its you oh its you they add up to and Im in love with you and all your little thing. You can't go to bed without a cup of tea and maybe thats the reason that you talk in you sleep and all those conversations are the secrets that I keep though it makes no sense to me. I know you've never loved the sound of your voice on tape you never want to know how much you weigh you still have to squeeze into to your jeans but you're perfect to me. I won't let these little things slip out of my mouth but if its true its you its these they add up to and Im in love with you and all you little things. You'll never love yourself half as much as I love you and you'll never treat yourself right darlin' but I want you to if I let you know I'm here for you then maybe you'll love yourself like I love you ohhhhh. And I've just let these little things slip out of my mouth cause its you oh its you its you they add up to and Im in love with you and all your little things I wont let these little things slip out of my mouth but if its true its you its you they add up to and im in love with you and all your little things. <3” - One Direction

126. “Try smiling at people, you never know how one smile can affect their day.” - Benjamin Bayani

127. “We never know what a day will bring us, but one thing we do know is that every morning we can wake up, smile and hope for the best. SMILE IT'S A NEW DAY” - Ellen K. Wookey

128. “لا تتحدث عن أحمالك ولولا مِئة وَجَع تلحُّ عليك أنت .. خُلقتَ .. للبهجة !” - مريد البرغوثي

129. “There's enchantment in a smile, did you know?Shall I prove in a wink that it is so?Watch my mouth grin wide and see,How quick your lips smile back at me!” - Richelle E. Goodrich

130. “One smile has the power to...Calm fears.Soften stone walls.Warm a cold heart.Invite a new friend.Mimic a loving hug.Beautify the bearer.Lighten heavy loads.Promote good deeds.Brighten a gloomy day.Comfort a grieving spirit.Offer hope to the forlorn.Send a message of caring.Lift the downtrodden soul.Patch up invisible wounds.Weaken the hold of misery.Act as medicine for suffering.Attract the companionship of angels.Fulfill the human need for recognition.Who knew changing the world would prove so simple?” - Richelle E. Goodrich

131. “Smile is a good reply to the dark world.” - Mehmet Murat ildan

132. “The power of a smile is such that even drawing a happy face on a piece of paper makes your lips turn up.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

133. “I've a habit of placing a happy-face or a frowny-face on my calendar, depending on what kind of day I've had.  Often I slap a droopy circle in the box, discouraged by the things I failed to accomplish and the unpleasant encounters endured.  But then, invariably, a wise muse stops to ask me these three questions:  Did your children let you hug them today?  Yes.  Did you do a kind deed for someone?  Anyone?  Yes.  Did God forsake you today?  No.  Then, my dear, despite your challenges, it was a good day after all.  Standing corrected,  I twist that frowny-face upside down and smile.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

134. “It's easy enough to smile at a man if you want to capture his attention, but once you realize he's not really looking at you, that perhaps he never really saw you, smiling becomes much more difficult” - Ashlyn Macnamara

135. “Gratitude paints little smiley faces on everything it touches.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

136. “His gratitude widened his smile and bent his back.” - Arundhati Roy

137. “To hear never-heard sounds, To see never-seen colors and shapes, To try to understand the imperceptible Power pervading the world; To fly and find pure ethereal substances That are not of matter But of that invisible soul pervading reality. To hear another soul and to whisper to another soul; To be a lantern in the darkness Or an umbrella in a stormy day; To feel much more than know. To be the eyes of an eagle, slope of a mountain; To be a wave understanding the influence of the moon; To be a tree and read the memory of the leaves; To be an insignificant pedestrian on the streets Of crazy cities watching, watching, and watching. To be a smile on the face of a woman And shine in her memory As a moment saved without planning.” - Dejan Stojanovic

138. “I knew you were the one when I realized your smile was my heaven, your laugh my favorite song, and your arms my home.” - Steve Maraboli

139. “Her smile was like a Samuel Beckett play - easy to read but difficult to interpret.” - Bob Smith

140. “Life is a difficult thing to understand. It makes us too much happy and suddenly takes away the happiness. But we should smile in every phase of the life.” - Sahaj Oberoi

141. “Be Strong , Have Faith and Always Smile .” - Ra'ad Ammari

142. “Don’t smile,” he said.” - Aimee Bender

143. “every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing” - Mother Teresa of Calcutta

144. “...if you smile for no reason at all you will actually start to feel happy” - Rebecca Stead

145. “I have lost my smile,but don't worry.The dandelion has it.” - Thich Nhat Hanh

146. “Sento ancora la follia scorrermi dentro, ma ancora non ho scritto le parole che avrei voluto, la tigre mi è rimasta sulla schiena. Morirò con addosso quella figlia di puttana, ma almeno le ho dato battaglia. E se fra voi c'è qualcuno che si sente abbastanza matto da voler diventare scrittore, gli consiglio va' avanti, sputa in un occhio al sole, schiaccia quei tasti, è la migliore pazzia che possa esserci, i secoli chiedono aiuto, la specie aspira spasmodicamente alla luce, e all'azzardo e alle risate. Regalateglieli. Ci sono abbastanza parole per noi tutti.” - Charles Bukowski