“I never realized how much you meant to me until someone spoke your name and an irrepressible, goofy grin stretched my lips.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“Laugh and smile for no reason at all. Giggle grins are a magnet for happiness.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“The secret to style is a beautiful smile.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“To look in the mirror and smile is a challenge for many people. Those who do so without the slightest scowl are indeed fortunate.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“Smile.
Steel it.
Keep steeling it.
Laugh.
Trill it.
Keep trilling it.
Love.
Feel it.
Keep feeling it.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“A smile is a light that sets your inner self aglow, letting others know you’re home.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“Beware of giggle grins; they are highly contagious.”
“I love happy people; they’re like smile magnets.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“Be happy.
Be happy for no reason at all.
Believe it or not, you have the ability and free agency to make that choice.”
“Oh, how terribly backwards, and yet sadly common, it is to sit scowling at family all the day long and then quickly put on a smile for strangers who drop by.”
“I can and will improve the world.
I will smile, show kindness, and be grateful.
I refuse to be unhappy.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“If you've put a smile on someone's face today, you've done more good than you know.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“I can't force your lips to smile, but I can show them how easily mine do.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“When thunderstorms roll in, you make a choice to either succumb with tears to the gloomy downpour, or smile and look for rainbows.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“Love is not complicated—just smile, hug, kiss, be kind, and repeat.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“Life is too hard to maintain a constantly serious outlook. You have to laugh at yourself and the world now and then―see humor in undesirable circumstances, even harsh situations―or you will either rot from the inside or go stark-raving mad. Humor is power against the worst oppression. It lightens heavy burdens; it allows one to smile while in agony; it eases excruciating pains. In short, humor makes the intolerable tolerable.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“Don't be afraid to try, because you never look back on life and smile at what you could have attempted. Joy only brightens your countenance over those things you did attempt.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“If the world appears abundant in smiles or overwhelmed by scowls, you might ask yourself if you're not to blame.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“Kisses are a means to plant on another's lips a smile glossed with happiness.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“The power of a smile is such that even drawing a happy face on a piece of paper makes your lips turn up.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“I've a habit of placing a happy-face or a frowny-face on my calendar, depending on what kind of day I've had. Often I slap a droopy circle in the box, discouraged by the things I failed to accomplish and the unpleasant encounters endured. But then, invariably, a wise muse stops to ask me these three questions:
Did your children let you hug them today? Yes.
Did you do a kind deed for someone? Anyone? Yes.
Did God forsake you today? No.
Then, my dear, despite your challenges, it was a good day after all.
Standing corrected, I twist that frowny-face upside down and smile.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“To fight discouragement, remind yourself of the basics:
I can write.
I have the opportunity to do so.
I love what I write.
Now smile and be thankful.”
“There's enchantment in a smile, did you know?
Shall I prove in a wink that it is so?
Watch my mouth grin wide and see,
How quick your lips smile back at me!”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“Sunshine warms us, as do smiles—which makes me think that smiles are sunbeams reflected off our teeth.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“The real beauty of a woman is most clearly seen in the smiles of those who interact with her.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“Happiness branches from the tree of kindness, abounding with the fruit of sweet smiles.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“There are people who are never content, never appeased, forever dissatisfied—who continually look to what escapes them, convincing themselves that if only they could attain that one desire outside of reach they would be happy. It seems almost pointless to give to these people because their eyes immediately shift from the gift to stare miserably at the portion held back. Their wants, demands, expectations, appetites are never satiated, thus they refuse to be happy. And you cannot make them so.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“When you used to think so highly of someone and then one day realize you were blind to things that screamed 'not a person of honorable character at all.'”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“Should-haves are the devil’s greatest tool against our personal progress. He shouts in our ears that they are failures, while God calmly whispers they are lessons.”
“You may think you've hit rock bottom in your life but guess what—there's more crud underneath those rocks.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“I realized at that moment - observing his form move further away without once turning back - that I’d already begun to rebuild the imaginary wall between us. I was shielding my heart with stone cold feelings again, the only way I knew to protect it. I still planned to try my hand at prayer. If God would grant me this one request, if I could keep my only friend, I would give anything in return, even the treasured books trapped beneath my arm. I’d tasted enough of a dismal life to know that a real, true friend was of greater worth than the collection of every imagined fairy tale in the world.”
Source: Dandelions: The Disappearance of Annabelle Fancher
“The road of life is paved with daily successes, a great number of them penny and nickle triumphs. Sadly, these little feats are often seen as worthless―even failures―because we dream of greater gain. Our greed keeps us focused on a gleaming pot of gold waiting at the end of some elusive rainbow. And, despairing a big loss, we fail to see the value in small achievements.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“Stubbornness is surely just taut-jawed, clenched-fisted madness.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“It's amusing to me that we refer to people who live in their heads as detached, disturbed, or mad, when reality for anyone is actually a matter of the individual's state of mind. The mad truth—all people live in their heads. Whatever you think life is, it is.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“Home is where
'I know you',
'I accept you',
'I forgive you',
and 'I love you'
are most likely to be heard.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“Home should be a safe haven. A refuge where love is expressed in both actions and words. When this is the case, heightened self-confidence, self-assurance, and self-worth are the outcomes. Love at home prepares individuals to attempt new things in the outside world, to chance missteps and failures, to learn from experiences that are not always gentle, knowing that love and acceptance await at home.”
Source: Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
“The place where you continually return for love and acceptance—that's home.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“Nothing else has the power to calm, comfort, and care for you better than home.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“Your body and spirit, subconscious and conscious—every portion of you recognizes home. That is why on the moment of arrival, your entire being relaxes into a contented puddle of joy.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“Did you see that?” she chirped. Her eyes glimmered with excitement. “A falling star! Did you make a wish?”
Ian dropped onto his back and looked up. “No—no wishes. I don’t believe in superstitions.”
She laughed. “But aliens you do believe in. You’re so weird.”
“What did you wish for?” he asked, ignoring the playful insult.
She grinned big. “I wished for all your wishes to come true.”
“Really? You wasted a wish on me?”
“Of course. You’re my best friend.” Her hand reached to squeeze his.
“But I thought if you told your wish it wouldn’t come true.”
“I thought you didn’t believe in superstitions.”
Source: Eena, The Dawn and Rescue
“You cannot appreciate what you have never experienced. Sadly, full appreciation tends to come only after the experience is past.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“Repentance is made of humility, remorse, apology, restitution, change, growth, and fresh starts.”
Source: Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
“Repenting requires change. It means forsaking the habits that caused the actions that necessitated repenting in the first place.”
Source: Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
“To mature, to progress, to grow—these require becoming a better version of yourself while acknowledging that experience has made you wiser. Maturation means admitting that (given the chance to turn back time) you would do things in a healthier, calmer, more constructive way based on what you have learned. Progress is shown as you accept and own the mistakes that were made, especially those that resulted in unfortunate consequences for others. The real growth comes when you offer apologies, make amends, and vow never again to repeat those same mistakes.”
Source: Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
“It may take fifteen, twenty, thirty years to reach the year that changes your life. Have faith. Be patient. Because the lessons learned during those trying years will prepare you for the year that changes everything.”
Source: Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
“Sincere, soul-felt repentance is a gift. It is the path to forgiveness, a way to change regrets and sins into gains like humility, empathy, and wisdom. Repentance will not fix everything that was broken, but it will mend your relationship with God, and that is of greater eternal importance.”
Source: Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
“If you think there are convincing-enough excuses to justify sin, you are wrong. God will not—by His own words, He cannot—look upon sin with the least degree of allowance.”
Source: Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
“When an individual changes for the better, the world changes for the better. It happens one person at a time.”
Source: Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
“My mind was caught up in an inexplicable mystery!
I had changed, and it bothered me. Not like a subtle adaptation one would deem a nuisance, but vitally enough to eat at my gut. Like a snake slithering out of its old, scaly skin, I had somehow shed my previous self—a person whom I feared was my better self. How had this happened? And so fast! So drastically!”
Source: The Tarishe Curse
“You were born to author your own story. This includes editing the bad parts. Go back. Repent. Climb where you fell. Joy where you sorrowed. Mend what you tore. Heal where you harmed. Speak where you were silent. Sing and laugh and dance where life once snatched your pen and scribbled black, ugly marks in your book. Buy new ink and print beautiful poetry over all the ugly parts.”
Source: Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year