quotes about happiness and smiling

I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension. ~Norman Mailer



There's no other love like the love for a brother. There's no other love like the love from a brother. ~Astrid Alauda



Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others. ~Buddha



God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know it's me. ~Author Unknown



Go for it now. The future is promised to no one. ~Wayne Dyer



And life and love and peace are all new born. ~Alice Freeman Palmer



A seed hidden in the heart of an apple is an orchard invisible. ~Welsh Proverb



I love you as you are, but do not tell me how that is. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



God made death so we'd know when to stop. ~Steven Stiles



There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot. ~Steven Wright



If you sincerely desire a truly well-rounded education, you must study the extremists, the obscure and "nutty." You need the balance! Your poor brain is already being impregnated with middle-of-the-road crap, twenty-four hours a day, no matter what. Network TV, newspapers, radio, magazines at the supermarket... even if you never watch, read, listen, or leave your house, even if you are deaf and blind, the telepathic pressure alone of the uncountable normals surrounding you will insure that you are automatically well-grounded in consensus reality. ~Ivan Stang, High Weirdness By Mail If you smile at someone, they might smile back. ~Author Unknown



An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five year old. ~Carl Van Vechten



A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more even than the whole man - he must view the man in his world. ~Harvey Cushing



Truth hurts - not the searching after; the running from! ~John Eyberg



Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair. ~G.K. Chesterton



Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains; another, a moonlit beach; a third, a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years. Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth. ~Diane Ackerman, A Natural History of the Senses



Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers. ~Garth Brooks



A great artist is always before his time or behind it. ~George Moore



If a man is not rising upwards to be an angel, depend upon it, he is sinking downwards to be a devil. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge



But when he shall have been taken from sight, he quickly goes also out of mind. ~Thomas a Kempis, Imitation of Christ