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716000d Peace begins with a smile.. inspirational peace smile smiling Mother Teresa
1a2ae1d If you're reading this.. alive congratulations hope humanity inspiration inspirational inspire life poetry smile wisdom Chad Sugg
f532e1d Dare to B compassion dare-to-be gratitude inspirational life motivational seize-the-day smile success Steve Maraboli
c905b7a I was smiling yesterday,I am smiling today and I will smile tomorrow.Simply because life is too short to cry for anything. cry inspirational joke love romance smile Santosh Kalwar
a72b055 More smiling, less worrying. More compassion, less judgment. More blessed, less stressed. More love, less hate. authentic-living being-positive blessed compassion hate inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes judgment less-more life life-purpose life-quotes living love mind motivation optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking smile smiles spirituality stress stressed worry worrying Roy T. Bennett
61290d9 Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people. being-human goodness human human-nature humanism humanity inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quote inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring kindness life life-and-living life-lessons life-philosophy life-quotes living love optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking smile smiles Roy T. Bennett
58f3134 Even if you cannot change all the people around you, you can change the people you choose to be around. Life is too short to waste your time on people who don't respect, appreciate, and value you. Spend your life with people who make you smile, laugh, and feel loved. appreciate change happiness inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring laugh life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living love optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking relationship respect smile value Roy T. Bennett
bffe041 Always find opportunities to make someone smile, and to offer random acts of kindness in everyday life. acts-of-kindness happiness inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring kindness life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living opportunity optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking smile Roy T. Bennett
cb437dd "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 it! That could've been evidence. Or spoils of war!" Annabeth tried for a dumb-blonde smile, like: 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." fighting octavian percy-jackson seawater smile rick riordan
4d680af Smile more. Smiling can make you and others happy. happiness inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking smile Roy T. Bennett
26f789b A smile puts you on the right track. A smile makes the world a beautiful place. When you lose your smile, you lose your way in the chaos of life. happiness inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking smile smiles smiling Roy T. Bennett
2c1ab75 Adam smiled cheerily. Ronan would start wars and burn cities for that true smile, elastic and amiable. love ronan-lynch smile Maggie Stiefvater
4545e54 Well, that's an evil smile... humor maxride smile James Patterson
cc3f544 Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love. inspirational love smile Mother Teresa
7036156 "tbsmk fy wjh 'khyk Sdq@, w'mrk blm`rwf Sdq@ wnhyk `n lmnkr Sdq@, wrshdk lrjl fy 'rD lDll lk Sdq@, wnSrk lrjl lrdy lbSr lk Sdq@, wmTtk lHjr wlshwk l`Zm `n lTryq lk Sdq@ Smiling 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. compassion giving-directions islam mohammed muhammad smile smiling الحديث-الشريف حديث Anonymous
244ea00 It only takes a split second to smile and forget, yet to someone that needed it, it can last a lifetime. compassion inspirational kindness smile Steve Maraboli
27b71d6 When you lose your smile, you lose your way in the chaos of life. chaos-of-life happiness inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-quotes living optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking smile smiles Roy T. Bennett
6ecbe95 Smile at strangers and you just might change a life. change-a-life compassion inspirational smile strangers Steve Maraboli
32b049f 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. groom smile wedding Judith McNaught
8c48ab4 "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." awkward beautiful boy flirt girl gorgeous hazel john-green life looking-at-me love lover lovers natalie-portman real real-life silence smile smiling the-fault-in-our-stars turn-me-on vendetta John Green The Fault in Our Stars
6ec22cc Dr. Suess said: 'Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened..' I tell my dates: 'Don't cry because it happened, smile because it's over crying happiness joy life misattributed-dr-seuss optimism sadness smile smiling josh stern
20636a6 ... have a smile for everyone you meet and a plan to kill them. smile Brad Thor
d0d6ccc She spilled rice on my knee, and she smiled. I wanted her to spill a thousand things on me, lava, acid, bricks, anything, and smile each time smile Ann Brashares
57f61e0 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. life moving-forward paths smile Neil Gaiman
8681656 A song and a smile from someone I cared about could be enough to distract me from all that darkness, if only for a little while. care caring darkness inspirational life love lyrics music smile song songs Ransom Riggs
e91a533 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. smile Sherrilyn Kenyon
3dcad92 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. death smile Robert Jordan
a465840 Margaret liked this smile; it was the first thing she had admired in this new friend of her father's; and the opposition of character, shown in all these details of appearance she had just been noticing, seemed to explain the attraction they evidently felt towards each other. attraction smile Elizabeth Gaskell
c1b1631 when he smiles it's as if you'd just told him the first joke on earth. happiness smile Mitch Albom
e9a2b03 The wine god sighed. 'Oh Hades if I know. But remember, boy, that a kind act can sometimes be as powerful as a sword. As a mortal, I was never a great fighter or athlete or poet. I only made wine. The people in my village laughed at me. They said I would never amount to anything. Look at me now. Sometimes small things can become very large indeed.' He left me alone to think about that. And as I watched Clarisse and Chris singing a stupid campfire song together, holding hands in the darkness, where they thought nobody could see them, I had to smile. gods greek greek-gods greek-mythology inspirational kindness percy-jackson smile wine-god Rick Riordan
5c0fb1c 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. hearts hips legs lips reach sickness smile touch Markus Zusak
3f9c401 "Her eyes were of different colors, the left as brown as autumn, the right as gray as Atlantic wind. Both seemed alive with questions that would never be voiced, as if no words yet existed with which to frame them. She was nineteen years old, or thereabouts; her exact age was unknown. Her face was as fresh as an apple and as delicate as blossom, but a marked depression in the bones beneath her left eye gave her features a disturbing asymmetry. Her mouth never curved into a smile. God, it seemed, had withheld that possibility, as surely as from a blind man the power of sight. He had withheld much else. Amparo was touched--by genius, by madness, by the Devil, or by a conspiracy of all these and more. She took no sacraments and appeared incapable of prayer. She had a horror of clocks and mirrors. By her own account she spoke with Angels and could hear the thoughts of animals and trees. She was passionately kind to all living things. She was a beam of starlight trapped in flesh and awaiting only the moment when it would continue on its journey into forever." (p.33)" apple asymmetry atlantic autumn blind-man blossom bones clock colors depression eyes god horror journey left-eye living-things madness mirror nineteen-years-old power-of-sight prayer questions sacraments smile starlight tree wind Tim Willocks
ed8fa00 There was a sad fellow over on a bar stool talking to the bartender, who was polishing a glass and listening with that plastic smile people wear when they are trying not to scream. smile Raymond Chandler
60eda8a 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 (...) metaphor pride purr smile Ray Bradbury
cb23e00 "An intelligent person, looking out of his eyes and hearkening in his ears, with a smile on his face all the time, will get more true education than many another in a life of heroic vigils"." intelligence smile Robert Louis Stevenson
889b7ea I silently smiled at my incessant good fortune. smile Henry David Thoreau
281822a "Okay, so, flying," I started, taking a deep breath and focusing on the thing I loved most in the world. "Flying is ... great. It feels great when you're doing it. It's fun. Pure freedom. There's nothing better." Dylan smiled, a slow, easy smile that seemed to light up his whole face. "So the first thing we're going to do," I told him, "is push you off the roof." funny humor lol smile smooth smooth-max wings James Patterson
0b1f52e "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?" couple dolphin flying friendship happiness heaven i-approve-too kiss kissing love otp shipping smile sun trust wings James Patterson
8371581 I had no idea how to respond, and opted for a smile, which serves me well on most occasions (not if it's something to do with death or illness, though -- I know that now.) eleanor-oliphant funny gail-honeyman humor smile Gail Honeyman
ad9964c 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. oblivious pathetic people smile smiled stare window Markus Zusak
e3be00c 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. mentally ejaculated Mr. Moreton. shock smile Georgette Heyer
4a0c847 She'd obviously read the book many times before, and so she read flawlessly and confidently, and I could hear her smile in the reading of it, and the sound of that smile made me think that maybe I would like novels better if Alaska Young read them to me. i-would-like-novels-better john-green looking-for-alaska novels smile John Green
6eba5b2 ..her smile, which was her pretty feature, was never so pretty as when her sprightly phrase had a scratch lurking in it. sarcasm smile Henry James
f0cb4b4 I am smiling a big adopted-orphan smile as I write this ... I still love scribbling the word - WRITER - any time on a form, questionnaire, document asks for my occupation. Fine, I write personality quizzes, I don't write about the Great Issues of the Day, but I think it's fair to say I am a writer ... ('Adopted-orphan smile', I mean, that's not bad, come on.) compulsive-lying crazy-bitch ego egotistical fantasy liar lie lies out-of-touch-with-reality pretending reality self-righteous smile smiling superiority-complex vain vainity wannabe wannabewriter writer writing Gillian Flynn
e17e3bb It seems to me that what we call beauty in a face lies in the smile: if the smile heightens the charm of the face, the face is a beautiful one; if it does not alter it, the face is ordinary, and if it is spoilt by a smile, it is ugly. boyhood childhood face smile tolstoy youth Leo Tolstoy
025cb11 - Vot ona, istina. Ne v serpe i molote. Ne v zvezdakh i polosakh. Ne v raspiatii. Ne v solntse. Ne v zolote. Ne v in' i ian. V ulybke. smile John Fowles
17f5882 Gimme an honest frown over a false smile, any day. smile Gregory David Roberts
1a8ba94 Moriarty rarely smiled,and then usually to terrify some poor victim. The first time I heard him laugh, I thought he had been struck by a deadly poison and the stutter escaping through his locked jaws was a death rattle. moriarty smile Kim Newman
1b4e005 "I heard Mr. many years ago in Chicago. The hall seated 5,000 people; every inch of standing-room was also occupied; aisles and platform crowded to overflowing. He held that vast audience for three hours so completely entranced that when he left the platform no one moved, until suddenly, with loud cheers and applause, they recalled him. He returned smiling and said: 'I'm glad you called me back, as I have something more to say. Can you stand another half-hour?' 'Yes: an hour, two hours, all night,' was shouted from various parts of the house; and he talked on until midnight, with unabated vigor, to the delight of his audience. This was the greatest triumph of oratory I had ever witnessed. It was the first time he delivered his matchless speech, 'The Liberty of Man, Woman, and Child'. I have heard the greatest orators of this century in England and America; O'Connell in his palmiest days, on the Home Rule question; Gladstone and John Bright in the House of Commons; Spurgeon, James and Stopford Brooke, in their respective pulpits; our own Wendell Phillips, Henry Ward Beecher, and Webster and Clay, on great occasions; the stirring eloquence of our anti-slavery orators, both in Congress and on the platform, but none of them ever equalled in his highest flights. america chicago delight england equality honor ingersoll liberty-of-man-woman-and-child matchless oratory praise respect rights robert-g-ingersoll robert-green-ingersoll robert-ingersoll smile speech triumph Elizabeth Cady Stanton
bdc86bc "Fairy Tales give you more than just smile. fairy-tales-retold fairytales hope love love-quotes paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton relationship-quotes smile true-love Ameya Agrawal
613cef7 "He said, "Were he only like his sister--what a difference that would make! For there never was such a sweet and gentle lady! I hear her footsteps, as she goes about the world. I hear the swish-swish-swish of her silken gown and the jingle-jangle of the silver chain about her neck. Her smile is full of comfort and her eyes are kind and happy! How I long to see her!" "Who, sir?" asked Paramore, puzzled. "Why, his sister, John. His sister." death eyes lady neil-gaiman sandman sister smile Susanna Clarke
fb90b81 We were both smiling, in that bittersweet way one does when imagining something the heart longs for and the head would dread. fitz fool head heart imagine longing smile Robin Hobb
5d3daf0 The day is won [...] And yet you do not smile, boy. The living should smile, for the dead cannot. smile war George R.R. Martin
3a2a581 [A] smile is the most becoming ornament that any lady can wear. beauty becoming happiness lady most ornament smile wear Susanna Clarke
aab5c7e "You're an asshole." "And you're a bitch," he says. "A bitch with a kick-ass smile and eyes that can seriously screw with a guy's head." bitch brittany-ellis compliment eyes smile Simone Elkeles
9a7cbfb Because they died, we know we still live. Because a star explodes and a thousand worlds like ours die, we know this world is. That is the smile: that what might not be, is. death possibilities smile John Fowles
74fe2bf And there was something so artless in this smile that I had to smile back. back emotions feelings homosexual love smile James Baldwin
8b82148 He gave me a small, secretive smile, a smile that said he knew many things but couldn't share them all at once. smile David Benioff
ac39750 Then the man smiled, and his smile was a shock, for it was all on one side, going up in the right cheek and down in the left. There was nothing, rationally speaking, to scare anyone about this. Many people have this nervous trick of a crooked smile, and in many it is even attractive. But in all Syme's circumstances, with the dark dawn and the deadly errand and the loneliness on the great dripping stones, there was something unnerving in it. There was the silent river and the silent man, a man of even classic face. And there was the last nightmare touch that his smile suddenly went wrong. nightmare smile G.K. Chesterton
4f3a576 Her smile was like a Samuel Beckett play - easy to read but difficult to interpret. smile Bob Smith
8e189a5 "I don't want anything else bad to happen," she whispered, her voice choked with tears. "I'm so sick to death of bad things happening, of seeing bad things that happened in the past! And I'm guilty of so many things. I'm sorry that I killed Mrs. Matthias and wrecked her stupid greenhouse back in the Eighties and I'm sorry I left you here alone while I went around the world." "I wasn't alone though, I knew you were doing what you wanted to do and that you were still alive, so I wasn't really alone, I knew you were still there somewhere," Alecto told her. His damaged smile and downcast, sorrowful eyes were draped in the shadow of the night, saving Mandy the trouble of seeing." apart bad crying damaged death eighties friend friendship greenhouse grief guilt hopelessness lonliness love murder omen shadow smile sorrow tears together travel trouble world Rebecca McNutt
8f94443 I bambini sono senza passato ed e questo tutto il mistero dell'innocenza magica del loro sorriso... innocence smile Milan Kundera
df0c5f2 He follows the curve as if he's an artist. isaiah smile think-about Katie McGarry
263254f A smile opened, thin as a paper cut, in the bottom of Flowers's face. smile Michael Chabon
2a61589 It takes practice, feeling happy about the ever enfolding events of life, and, because of all the conditioning we have undergone before this, it may be very difficult to make the change, but if we take the saying to heart and practice it, as the days unfold we will find ourselves living ever happier lives, smiling more, and finally, laughing more. happiness happy health i-ching life smile wisdom wu-wei Wu Wei
2b4c45f Smile for the camera, pretty little Sydney Tar Ponds. canada cape-breton little nova-scotia photography picture prett smile sydney-tar-ponds Rebecca McNutt
de3efa9 "What are you doing?" Alecto asked in surprise, stepping back. Laughing brightly, she dragged him towards the greenhouse, the shattered glass reflecting rainbows as brilliant as a million Kodak flashcubes, glittering as they were cascaded through the breeze. "See, don't be afraid of the glass, it can't hurt us," Mandy laughed, spectacularly eccentric, her eyes reflecting the fallen glass. "I wasn't afraid of the glass, but this isn't a very secluded place that you just decided to vandalize," Alecto cautioned, smiling despite his words. Before Mandy could reply, she heard loud whispering in the air, behind the trees... it sounded like a group of people, all whispering in unison... "Somebody's out there," she exclaimed nervously. "Yeah, you're right," Alecto replied. Suddenly a sharp new vibrancy seemed to fill his eyes and he smiled coldly, taking the tree branch from Mandy and rapidly smashing in all of Mrs. Matthias' stained glass house windows with it. Blue, green, yellow, red, turquoise, purple and an array of other colors showered through the sky noisily, sounding like wind chimes and crashing waves. "They'll go away," he told her, glancing up at the sky. "...Alecto, do you like me?" Mandy questioned, holding out her arms like a lopsided scarecrow as the glass fell through her dark red hair. "Yeah, sure," he answered. "Will you be my friend, then? A real friend, not just another person who feels sorry for me?" Mandy asked. "...Alright, Mandy Valems," Alecto agreed." air best-friends blue canada cape-breton children colored crashing cut depression flashcube friend friends friendship fun funny glass glitter green greenhouse growing-up house kodak love noir noise nostalgia nova-scotia red scarecrow sharp shatter smile sorry stained-glass trees vandalism vibrancy waves whispering wind-chimes yellow Rebecca McNutt
f3629a7 "Um, thanks," Jackson told her. "And your name is...?" "I'm Margaret, Margaret Van Der Graaf," she answered with another eerie smile. Her teeth were so white that they looked bleached. "Van Der Graaf?" Jackson repeated, trying to stifle his laughter. He didn't want to be rude to the only person in sight, to this kind-hearted stranger who was offering to help him, but... Van Der Graaf? "What are you laughing at?" Margaret asked with curiosity, flashing him a calculating gaze. "I like my name. If you're going to be a jerk, then I won't help you. You can stay out here on the street through the night for all I care." "...Harsh," said Jackson, giving her a quizzical glance back. There was something 'off' about her, something that Jackson couldn't quite place, something that bordered on horrible loneliness and longing. "Who else lives here, Margaret Van Der Graaf?" He couldn't resist saying her name aloud. Despite its hilarity, it had a nice ring to it. "Who else lives here?" he urged. "Me, myself and I," said Margaret simply, snickering when she saw his horrified and annoyed expression" comedy friendship funny ghost humor longing lonliness name smile stranger weird Rebecca McNutt
6ecb429 It's a beautiful smile. One that brightens the rat-infested attic room. No one has ever smiled like that at me. No one. Everything inside me twists with the need to keep her close. I should be pissed. Who knows if I'll ever see the money from Eric. Who knows if Noah and I will lose the lease, sending me back into the system. Right now, I don't f*cking care. I'm touching an angel. don-t-care isaiah no-one pissed smile who-knows Katie McGarry
4a86eb0 Istedigi zaman gozyaslarini icine akitip gulumseyebilme yetenegine sahip olmustu.Bu yuzden de gozyaslarinin gercek olup olmadigini o da anlamiyordu. Oscar'li bir oyuncu gibiydi. oscar sins sloth smile tears Robin Wasserman
35434e5 To meditate, only you must smile. Smile with face, smile with mind, and good energy will come and clean away dirty energy. Even smile in your liver. smile spirituality Elizabeth Gilbert
dd4c67e Jemima was not pretty, the flatness and shortness of her face made her almost plain; yet most people looked twice at her expressive countenance, at the eyes which flamed or melted at every trifle, at the rich colour which came at every expressed emotion into her usually sallow face, at the faultless teeth which made her smile like a sunbeam. beautiful countenance eyes jemima-bradshaw not-pretty plain smile Elizabeth Gaskell
c0a2ae0 Her mouth smiled, smiled hard, but her eyes did not smile, ever. Her eyes watched and looked for something they knew they'd never find. emotion eyes smile Mary Gaitskill
f7bc1bd "What are you smiling about?" she asked. He drew back a few inches, cupping her face with both hands. "How did you know I was smiling?" "I could feel it on my lips." He brought a finger to those lips, tracing the outline, then running the edge of his fingernail along the plump skin. "You make me smile," he whispered. "When you don't make me want to scream, you make me smile." -Sophie & Benedict" benedict smile sophie Julia Quinn
c49ce11 The thinnest shaft of light entered the empty chambers of my heart, just for a moment. Then it disappeared, extinguished by the weight of all that had gone before. hope smile Kate Mosse
4ce43ed She could feel it brimming on her lips, that superstar smile, the bow shape, the teeth long and solid tombstones. fake smile Aimee Bender
7b9520f His eyes were more sunken than I remembered them, and his cheekbones more pronounced. This gave him a harsher, older look - until he smiled, of course, and the sagging cheeks gathered up like curtains. death describe face ill look smile Mitch Albom
5ee3a12 Here we should notice a peculiar fact: that there are movements which are both essentially involuntary and yet confined to persons - to creatures with a self-conscious perspective. Smiles and blushes are the two most prominent examples. Milton puts the point finely in Paradise Lost: for smiles from Reason flow, To brute denied, and are of love the food. These physiognomic movements owe their rich intentionality to this involuntary character, for it is this which suggests that they show the other 'as he really is'. Hence they become the pivot and focus of our interpersonal responses, and of no response more than sexual desire. The voluntary smile is not a smile at all, but a kind of grimace which, while it may have its own species of sincerity--as in the smile of Royalty, which as it were pays lip-service to good nature -- is not esteemed as an expression of the soul. On the contrary, it is perceived as a mask, which conceals the 'real being' of the person who wears it. Smiling must be understood as a response to another person, to a thought or perception of his presence, and it has its own intentionality. To smile is to smile at something or someone, and hence when we see someone smiling in the street we think of him as 'smiling to himself, meaning that there is some hidden object of his present thought and feeling. The smile of love is a kind of intimate recognition and acceptance of the other's presence - an involuntary acknowledgement that his existence gives you pleasure. The smile of the beloved is not flesh, but a kind of stasis in the movement of the flesh. It is a paradigm of 'incarnation': of the other made flesh, and so transforming the flesh in which he is made. Thus the smile of Beatrice conveys her spiritual reality; Dante must be fortified in order to bear it, for to look at it is to look at the sun (Paradiso, XXIII, 47--8): tu hai vedute cose, che possente set fatto a sostener lo riso mio. smile Roger Scruton
5c8b8cf there is no game in her smile. There is warmth and kindness and something that looks like steel. You can tell me anything, her eyes say, because I will see the beauty in everything you say. smile Rene Denfeld
a1a6a40 "In fact the "mask" theme has come up several times in my background reading. Richard Sennett, for example, in "The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism", and Robert Jackall, in "Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate managers", refer repeatedly to the "masks" that corporate functionaries are required to wear, like actors in an ancient Greek drama. According to Jackall, corporate managers stress the need to exercise iron self-control and to mask all emotion and intention behind bland, smiling, and agreeable public faces. Kimberly seems to have perfected the requisite phoniness and even as I dislike her, my whole aim is to be welcomed into the same corporate culture that she seems to have mastered, meaning that I need to "get in the face" of my revulsion and overcome it. But until I reach that transcendent point, I seem to be stuck in an emotional space left over from my midteen years: I hate you; please love me." corporate-culture corporate-world drama fake faking mask masks moral morality phony self-control smile smiling theatre Barbara Ehrenreich
b334148 "Shelley," I say. "You should've let him win. You know, to be polite." Shelley's response is a shake of her head. Applesauce drips on her chin. "That's the way it's going to be, huh?" I say, hoping the scene doesn't gross Alex out. Maybe I'm testing him, to see if he can handle a glimpse of my home life. If so, he's passing. "Wait until Alex leaves. I'll show you who the checkers champion is." My sister smiles that sweet, crooked smile of hers. It's like a thousand words put into one expression. For a moment I forget Alex is still watching me. It's so weird having him inside my life and my house. He doesn't belong, yet he doesn't seem to mind being here." brittany-ellis glimpse shelley-ellis smile win Simone Elkeles
3312fd7 "You have games on there?" he asks. "Yeah," I answer for her. "She's become a checkers fanatic. Shelley, show him how it works." While Shelley slowly taps the screen with her knuckles, Alex watches, seemingly fascinated. When the checkers screen comes up, Shelley nudges Alex's hand. "You go first," he says. She shakes her head. "She wants you to go first," I tell him. "Cool." He taps the screen. I watch, getting all mushy inside, as this tough guy plays quietly with my big sister. "Do you mind if I make a snack for her?" I say, desperate to leave the room. "Nah, go ahead," he says, his concentration on the game. "You don't have to let her win," I say before leaving. "She can hold her own in checkers." "Uh, thanks for the vote of confidence, but I am tryin' to win," Alex says. He has a genuine grin on his face, without trying to act cocky or cool." brittany-ellis checkers game shelley-ellis smile win Simone Elkeles
3d29fbb So that the smile was not so much an attitude to be taken to life as the nature of the cruelty of life, a cruelty we cannot even choose to avoid, since it is human existence. life smile John Fowles
39e6ad9 With a smile like that, you don't need eyes. smile Markus Zusak
ae9977e "You stopped," she whispered, looking surprised. "This isn't the place," he replied. For a moment her face showed no change of expression. Then, almost as if someone were pulling a shade over her face, horror dawned. It started in her eyes, which grew impossibly round and somehow even more green than usual, then it reached her mouth, her lips parting as a gasp of air rushed in. "I didn't think," she whispered, more to herself than to him. "I know." He smiled. "I know. I hate it when you think. It always ends badly for me." "We can't do this again." "We certainly can't do it here." "No, I mean--" "You're spoiling it." "But--" "Humor me," he said, "and let me believe the afternoon ended without your telling me this will never happen again." "But--" He pressed a finger to her lips. "You're not humoring me." "But--" "Don't I deserve this one little fantasy?" At last, he broke through. She smiled. "Good," he said. "That's more like it." Her lips quivered, then, amazingly, her smile grew. "Excellent," he murmured. "Now then, I'm going to leave. And you have only one task while I go. You will stay right here, and you will keep smiling. Because it breaks my heart to see any other expression on your face." "You won't be able to see me," she pointed out. He touched her chin. "I'll know." And then, before her expression could change from that enchanting combination of shock and adoration, he left. -Sophie & Benedict" benedict-and-sophie humor-me smile swoon Julia Quinn
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