Genuine Smiles Quotes

• A genuine smile distributes the cosmic current, Prana to every body cell.The happy man is less subject to disease, for happiness actually attracts into the body a greater supply of the Universal life energy.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Smile, Men, Cells

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• A genuine smile touches something fundamental in us: our natural appreciation of kindness.

  Dalai Lama

  Appreciation, Kindness, Fundamentals

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  I smile like a flower not only with my lips but with my whole being.

  Rumi

  Smile, Flower, Lips

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  A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.

  William Arthur Ward

  Inspirational, Positive, Smile

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• A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.

  William Hazlitt

  Motivational, Happiness, Smile

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• Encourage everyone you meet with a smile or compliment. Make them feel better when you leave their presence and they will always be glad to see you coming.

  Joyce Meyer

  Inspirational, Smile, Encouraging

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• A genuine, affectionate smile is very important in our day-to-day lives.

  Dalai Lama

  Smile, Spiritual, Important

  His Holiness the Dalai Lama (2013). “The Dalai Lama’s Little Book of Wisdom”, p.8, HarperCollins UK

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• And then he gives me a smile that just seems so genuinely sweet with just the right touch of shyness that unexpected warmth rushes through me.

  Suzanne Collins

  Love, Smile, Sweet

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.67, Scholastic Inc.

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• To me nothing in the world is as precious as a genuine smile, especially from a child.

  Rumi

  Children, World, Genuine

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• You have to get hurt. That's how you learn. The strongest people out there, the ones who laugh the hardest with a genuine smile, those are the people who have fought the toughest battles. Because they've decided that they're not going to let anything hold them down, they're showing the world who's boss. One must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Hurt, People, Laughing

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  If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.

  Andy Rooney

  Love, Happiness, Smile

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• I love smiles. That is a fact. How to develop smiles? There are a variety of smiles. Some smiles are sarcastic. Some smiles are artificial-diplomatic smiles. These smiles do not produce satisfaction, but rather fear or suspicion. But a genuine smile gives us hope, freshness. If we want a genuine smile, then first we must produce the basis for a smile to come.

  Dalai Lama

  Sarcastic, Giving, Want

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.1, Penguin Books India

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• I cannot say where I will be in 5 yearsscratch that, tomorrowBut I know that wherever you find me, I will remain true to myself with a genuine smile on my face and happiness in my heart.

  Gina Carano

  Heart, Mma, Faces

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• In my own case, I had to train myself out of that phony smile, which is like a nervous tic on every teenage girl. And this meant that I smiled rarely, for in truth, when it came down to real smiling, I had less to smile about. My 'dream' action for the women's liberation movement: a smile boycott, at which declaration all women would instantly abandon their 'pleasing' smiles, henceforth smiling only when something pleased them.

  Shulamith Firestone

  Smile, Girl, Dream

  SHULAMITH FIRESTONE (1970). “THE DIALECTIC OF SEX: THE CASE FOR FEMINIST REVOLUTION”

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• Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates.

  Samuel Smiles

  Helping, Effects

  Samuel Smiles (1866). “Self-help: With Illustrations of Charakter, Conduct and Perseverance”, p.1

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• It was such an unexpected and genuine smile that if I only had a soul I'm sure I would have felt quite guilty.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Soul, Unexpected, Guilty

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Darkly Dreaming Dexter”, p.143, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• How did you keep this by you?" Grey demanded abruptly. "You were searched to the skin when you were brought back." The wide mouth curved slightly in the first genuine smile Grey had seen. "I swallowed it," Fraser said. Grey's hand closed convulsively on the sapphire. He opened his hand and rather gingerly set the gleaming blue thing on the table by the chess piece. "I see," he said. "I'm sure you do, Major," said Fraser, with a gravity that merely made the glint of amusement in his eyes more pronounced. "A diet of rough parritch has its advantages, now and again.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Eye, Blue, Hands

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series Bundle: Books 1, 2, 3, and 4: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn”, p.2325, Delacorte Press

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• Throw in something extra. Whether it's a coupon for a future discount, additional information on how to use the product, or a genuine smile, people love to get more than they thought they were getting. And don't think that a gesture has to be large to be effective.

  Susan Ward

  Educational, Thinking, People

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• The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual.

  Samuel Smiles

  Inspirational, Self, Roots

  'Self-Help' (1859)

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• The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual; and, exhibited in the lives of many, it constitutes the true source of national vigour and strength. Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates

  Samuel Smiles

  Self, Roots, Growth

  Samuel Smiles (1861). “Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.15

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• An ad that pretends to be art is – at absolute best – like somebody who smiles warmly at you only because he wants something from you.

  David Foster

  Art, Want Something, Simulacrum

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• Before Luce could reply, a skinny, dark haired girl appeared in from of her, wagging her long fingers in Luce's face. "Ooooooh," the girl taunted in a ghost-story-telling voice, dancing around Luce in a circle. "The reds are watching youuuu." "Get out of here, Arriane, before I have you lobotimized," the attendant said, though it was clear from her first brief but genuine smile that she had some coarse affection for that crazy girl. It was also clear that Arriane did not reciprocate the love. She mimed a jerking-off motion at the attendant, then stared at Luce, daring her to be offended.

  Lauren Kate

  Girl, Crazy, Dark

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• An ad that pretends to be art is - at absolute best - like somebody who smiles warmly at you only because he wants something from you. This is dishonest, but what's sinister is the cumulative effect that such dishonesty has on us: since it offers a perfect facsimile or simulacrum of goodwill without goodwill's real spirit, it messes with our heads and eventually starts upping our defenses even in cases of genuine smiles and real art and true goodwill. It makes us feel confused and lonely and impotent and angry and scared. It causes despair.

  David Foster Wallace

  Lonely, Art, Confused

  "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again". Essay by David Foster Wallace, February 1, 1997.

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