309 private quotes tagged smile

“God blessed me with two unbelievable parents, and I am just like both of them. I have the smile and charisma of my mother and the big heart of my mom, because she wants to save the world and help the world, so I am just like her.” — Magic Johnson

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“My children are the reason I laugh, smile and want to get up every morning.” — Gena Lee Nolin

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“My first experiences of academic friendship made me smile in after years when I looked back on them. But my circle of acquaintances had gradually grown so large that it was only natural new friendships should grow out of it.” — Georg Brandes

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“I never laugh or smile when I am writing. When I come home for lunch after writing all morning, my wife says I look like I just came home from a funeral. This is not bragging. This is an illness.” — Carl Hiaasen

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“Whereas I used to get depressed or neurotic or dwell on things, I see my son's bright eyes and smile in the morning, and suddenly, I don't feel like I'm depressed anymore. There's nothing to be depressed about when you've got that.” — Corey Feldman

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“The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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“I've never missed a gig yet. Music makes people happy, and that's why I go on doing it - I like to see everybody smile.” — Buddy Guy

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“We forget that this music, music made by my brothers and sisters, is still a baby. It's just beginning. When I think of the possibilities, it makes me smile.” — Barry White

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“Peace begins with a smile.” — Mother Teresa

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“If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.” — Nhat Hanh

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“Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace.” — Nhat Hanh

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“Your smile will give you a positive countenance that will make people feel comfortable around you.” — Les Brown

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“Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A 'you can do it' when things are tough.” — Richard M. DeVos

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“Look back, and smile on perils past.” — Walter Scott

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“The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.” — James Thurber

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“The number-one job of the hedge-fund manager is not to make sure that you can retire with a smile on your face - it's for him to retire with a smile on his face.” — Mark Cuban

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“Better by far you should forget and smile that you should remember and be sad.” — Christina Rossetti

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“Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.” — Christina G. Rossetti

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“Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.” — Paramahansa Yogananda

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“We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers.” — Marguerite Gardiner

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“And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died.” — Julien Benda

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“A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.” — William Arthur Ward

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“A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.” — Phyllis Diller

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“A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.” — Denis Waitley

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“In masks outrageous and austere, The years go by in single file But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile.” — Elinor Wylie

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