Smile and others will smile back. Smile to show how transparent, how candid you are. Smile if you have nothing to say. Most of all, do not hide the fact you have nothing to say nor your total indifference to others. Let this emptiness, this profound indifference shine out spontaneously in your smile.
Jean Baudrillard
Related …and you smile back and try not to think about the fact that you have nothing, absolutely nothing,... DAVID NICHOLLS How do you make me smile when it seems like there’s nothing in the whole world to smile about? PAULA STOKES No matter how you look, while you smile. But it matters when you smile, while you look others. PRITISH PATTANAIK Be generous with your smile and try not to frown. And you will see my children; your smile will... BENNY BELLAMACINA The law of a good start:
Start your morning with a smile. You don't need any reason to smile. Just s... JOHN B. BEJO This is my story; I promise to leave nothing out. First you will smile, and then you will cry - don'... NICHOLAS SPARKS This is my story; I promise to leave nothing out. First you will smile, and then you will cry -... NICHOLAS SPARKS If you want to relax the worry-tightened muscles in your face, let the half smile come to your face.... THICH NHAT HANH Smile at each other, smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at eac... MOTHER THERESA Smile at each other, smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at eac... MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA Smile, even if it's a sad smile, because sadder than a sad smile is the sadness of not knowing how t... TOM GATES Give a smile to everyone you meet (smile with your eyes) and you'll smile and receive smiles. W. CLEMENT STONE if you feel happy, Smile with all your heart. if you're down, smile with all your might. PAUL IAN GUILLERMO It hurts when you have to smile and you don't want to smile, but the best thing to do is to smil... MARY J. BLIGE Nothing you wear is more important than your smile. CONNIE STEVENS I hate when you have to smile for me.. so nice if you'd do that spontaneously. TOBA BETA Smile while you have the opportunity. Believe me, you will have no reasons to smile one day. RATNIKA BATRA "Meaning of happiness is when you see your smile on others faces". ARVIND YADAV Smile because you don’t want others to cry. LESTER LIM JUN KAI Your smile is your logo, your personality is your business card, how you leave others feeling after ... JAY DANZIE Once you don't smile on film, they say, 'Let's have that bloke who doesn't smile.... RICHARD C. ARMITAGE Lucius smiled a little. "You do have a will of your own." The smile faded. "This is not the time to ... BETH FANTASKEY Disability is not what we see or appear, it is all about not doing what one really wanted to do... SEAL THE SMILE A smile puts you on the right track. A smile makes the world a beautiful place. When you lose your s... ROY T. BENNETT If Someone judge by your looks & say
"You are not beautiful"
Just Smile Back them & Say
"I have an A... DINACE KUMAR C I looked at myself in that window, oblivious to all the people around me and I stared and smiled tha... MARKUS ZUSAK You have to promote yourself; you have to have this smile on your face all the time and be this nice... CRAIG ROBERTS Someday you will smile at me And I will smile back at you, You’re going to thank me For loving you... ALON CALINAO DY Sometimes your simple smile means a whole world to some people. A smile does not cost anything. Smil... JOHN B. BEJO You go to work the next day pretending nothing happened. Your co-workers ask if everything... RICHARD SIKEN There is a difference between 'I love your smile' and 'I love to see you smile'. NAMAN GARG Most babies know how to win us over. We cannot help but smile at them and watch them smile back. MADELEINE M. KUNIN When you have done your best with what you know how to do best -- and people everywhere look at you ... MAURICE CHEVALIER When your happy smile, when your sad smile, when your frustrated smile, when your angry smile ... Fe... WILIAM CONSTANTINE Give your best smile to your child and be assured your child will smile for life SOTONYE ANGA SMILE costs nothing but values differently.“SMILE” adorned on the face of bumptious people will ... ANUJ SOMANY Because when you're posed, you know someone's watching. You put on your very best smile. You let you... JAY ASHER Lorraine once told me, smile big when you’re sad. Smile big when you’re happy. Smile big when yo... MARLEY JACOBS No matter how fleeting Your smile is, Your smile is the very beginning Of your wisdo... SRI CHINMOY If you haven't seen your wife smile at a traffic cop, you haven't seen her smile her prettiest. KIN HUBBARD I believe that when you put a smile out there, you get a smile back. HEIDI KLUM Action is a powerful thing. When you smile through your sadness, it can completely change your outlo... LETICIA RAE Think about how much better this world would be if people would just smile at each other more often.... TOM GIAQUINTO I cry, but not for myself. There’s too much sadness in this world to waste a moment with self-pity... JAROD KINTZ this is how you smile to someone you don't like too much; this is how you smile to someone you don't... JAMAICA KINCAID I was glad my father was an eye-smiler. It meant he never gave me a fake smile because it's impossib... ROALD DAHL When you walk and smile at all of those around you, you will find that your smile is as contagious a... ANTHONY T. HINCKS I had to smile at the man. I mean, you have to smile at idiots and children. JIM BUTCHER When you find what keeps you smiling, you have found true happiness; When what makes you smile helps... ADAM BENTEN DULA Why Should You Smile?
It makes you attractive, it changes your mood, it relieves your stress and hel... PERRYSEIDER If you ever meet someone who thinks they are so special, the best thing to do is smile. You don’t ... JEFF HUTCHINS my mother, poor fish, wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times a week, telling me to... CHARLES BUKOWSKI No matter how busy you are, No matter in which position you are, No matter what situation life gives... YASMEEN KHAN Smile more. Smiling can make you and others happy. ROY T. BENNETT Smile more. Smiling can make you and others happy. ROY BENNETT Smile, smile, smile at your mind as often as possible. Your smiling will considerably reduce your mi... SRI CHINMOY When SOmeNODy BreAks YOur HEart To PIecEs And You Cry YOur Eyes OUt..... YOu See nO way Out To SmiLE... MONIKA SINGH My name is Landon Carter, and I’m seventeen years old. This is my story; I promise to leave n... NICHOLAS SPARKS Love is knowing you have a smile in your heart. JASMINA SIDEROVSKI If someone is too tired to give you a smile, leave one of your own, because no one needs a smile as ... UNKNOWN I have died at the ripe age of twenty. Smile, for the world didn't get a chance to disappoint m... KAMAND KOJOURI “A genuine smile comes from deep down in your soul. It is based on the pure joy, peace and happine... STEPHANI MCLELLAN Don't Laugh on others pain..
Try to Make them laugh out of their pain..
Be Smile.. Make smile..
#Ace... DINACE KUMAR C The most difficult thing to do is to have a fake smile on your face even when you know everything is... HARSH MAURYA Sometimes you say things with a smile with the precise intention of making it clear that you are not... UMBERTO ECO We all have our down days, but it's not hard to smile and say, 'Thank you.' YVETTE NICOLE BROWN Look at your heart-flower and smile. You will be able to solve your most pressing problems. SRI CHINMOY Your Smile is our Smile TARSEM L SINGHAL Smile and the whole world smiles with you, frown and you frown alone. It’s amazing what a simple s... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Joy is meant to be felt; its not meant to be detained. It is meant to be shared with others; not to ... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Half-smile when you first wake up in the morning Hang a branch, any other sign, or even the word “... THICH NHAT HANH Time moves on for us, for you it stands still. You will be forever ageless as we grow old, your smil... KENDAL ROB It is Christmas every time you let God love others through you . . . yes, it is Christmas every time... MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA When you see someone smile, does it naturally make you want to smile back? When you are irritable, d... SUSAN C. YOUNG I've got nothing to do today but smile. PAUL SIMON It’s funny—when people call you “shy,” they usually smile. Like it’s cute, some funny litt... CLAUDIA GRAY Show me a smile, and I'll show you one back. VANILLA ICE We are not going to change the whole world, but we can change ourselves and feel free as birds. We c... SWAMI SATCHIDANANDA Smile at people everywhere you go. Don’t just give them one of those half-smirk/head nod things. R... DAN PEARCE Thank you, cause this is your hate that gave me strength to smile again. NAMAN GARG If you haven't seen your wife smile at a traffic cop, you haven't seen her smile her prettie... KIN HUBBARD First you will smile, and then you will cry -- don't say you haven't been warned. NICHOLAS SPARKS Your smile makes life more beautiful.... so smile all day, every day as often as you can.... share t... EDIE BAILEY If you value your time, You'll get some reasons to smile in return. MD. NAZRUL ISLAM Relax. Smile. Breathe. You can do this. NATASHA VANDERLINDEN Are you being approachable when you are around new people? Ever not know what to say? Simply smile w... SUSAN C. YOUNG If I find out for a fact that you snitched, you won't see another holiday, so keep that smile on you... RON STEWART What's the use of worrying? It never was worth while, so pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag, ... GEORGE ASAF What's the use of worrying?
It never was worth while, so
Pack up your troubles in your old kit... GEORGE ASAF (PSEUDONYM OF GEORGE HENRY POWELL) How are you going to forget him if you keep talking about him? Darling, when things go wrong in life... SOPHIE KINSELLA If someone tells you more than five times to smile and you smile, than you are a parrot and that per... APURVA GAGLANI Smile, coz when you smile, you comfort yourself. LIONY LUMOMBO VON TIRAMISU There's gonna be some stuff you gonna see that's gonna make it hard To smile in the future, but thro... TUPAC SHAKUR I may not be the most important person in your life, but when you hear my name, I hope you smile and... FEMALE IMAGINATION We can save the world," I say, trying to smile. "You and me. PATRICK NESS Whats the use of worrying? It never was worth while, so, pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag... GEORGE HENRY POWELL If you miss a smile of a friend you will feel how harder it’s. Distance is no matter keep friends ... PALITHA ARIYARATHNA I want to make you smile. For real. Always. We're going to go for dinners, and see movies, and walk ... K.A. TUCKER Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at... MOTHER TERESA Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at... MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA
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JEAN ROSTAND There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past. JEAN ROSTAND Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains t... JEAN ROSTAND The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why. JEAN ROSTAND God, that dumping ground of our dreams. JEAN ROSTAND God, that checkroom of our dreams. JEAN ROSTAND I'm starting to believe that happily ever after includes people doing things that upset each other. ... JEAN FERRIS The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of d... JEAN PIAGET The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of ... JEAN PIAGET You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich pe... JEAN KERR Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence. JEAN PAUL The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions. JEAN ROSTAND The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after dange... JEAN PAUL We can be seduced...by powerful political groups that promise more wealth and lower taxes. Those wit... JEAN VANIER Mirrors should think longer before they reflect. JEAN COCTEAU At twenty-four she imagined with dread that she was growing old. JEAN RHYS A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness. JEAN GENET Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood -- we fail to see the whole arra... JEAN ROSTAND Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a... JEAN GENET Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel. JEAN RACINE Memory is the only paradise from which we cannot be driven. JEAN PAUL The only medicine that does women more good than harm is dress. JEAN PAUL To be adult is to be alone. JEAN ROSTAND Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges... JEAN GENET All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects an... JEAN COCTEAU No author can be as moral as his work and no preacher as pious as his sermons. JEAN PAUL Humankind's chief fault is that they have so many small ones. JEAN PAUL Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions. JEAN PAUL The parent is low, who having children, truly feels bored. JEAN PAUL It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed. JEAN ROSTAND You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich pers... JEAN KERR If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must ... JEAN COCTEAU We all have the extraordinary coded within us... waiting to be released. JEAN HOUSTON The end we aim at must be known, before the way can be made. JEAN PAUL The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain ... JEAN KERR The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same. JEAN ROSTAND Brevity is the body and soul of wit. JEAN PAUL Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name. JEAN PAUL No one is more profoundly sad as one who laughs too much. JEAN PAUL Even though a number of people have tried, no one has ever found a way to drink for a living. JEAN KERR