“Your life isn't some prerecorded movie where, no matter how many times you watch it, the ending remains the same. Your life is a book in progress, and you are the author. So if you don't care for the main character or the gloomy scenery or how the twisted plot is unfolding, then do something to change it. You write your own story.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“There are things
that make no sense,
that seem unreal,
that can’t be grasped
or understood
or explained,
that maybe don’t even exist…
And still, somehow, those wonderful things touch and change our lives.
Isn’t it strange?”
Source: Secrets of a Noble Keykeeper
“Your life is not a simulation; it's the real game. Play wisely.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“Every sunrise is an invitation for us to arise and brighten someone's day.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“Service is a smile. It is an acknowledging wave, a reaching handshake, a friendly wink, and a warm hug. It's these simple acts that matter most, because the greatest service to a human soul has always been the kindness of recognition.”
“Act like you care. Pray like you care. Speak, smile, reach out, and live like you care. The point is to make sure those in your life know beyond doubt that you do care.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“I could really use someone else's smile today.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“Be nice. And if you can't do that, just don't be mean.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“Kindness is a girl's best friend.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“Live your day and live it well. It's yours whether you want it or not.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“While 'Once upon a time' may be a great way to start a story, 'Here in the moment' is the best way to live one.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“We live that we might have experience; that through it we might gain wisdom, compassion, faith, and inner strength.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“One smile has the power to...
Calm fears.
Soften stone walls.
Warm a cold heart.
Invite a new friend.
Mimic a loving hug.
Beautify the bearer.
Lighten heavy loads.
Promote good deeds.
Brighten a gloomy day.
Comfort a grieving spirit.
Offer hope to the forlorn.
Send a message of caring.
Lift the downtrodden soul.
Patch up invisible wounds.
Weaken the hold of misery.
Act as medicine for suffering.
Attract the companionship of angels.
Fulfill the human need for recognition.
Who knew changing the world would prove so simple?”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“Gratitude paints little smiley faces on everything it touches.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“Smile wide to receive many smiles in return. But if you want a good laugh, smirk like a wicked, little imp and watch the range of expressions you're flashed.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“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
“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
“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