“You don't understand, Padawan." Qui-Gon gave the smile that he gave so rarely, a full smile that lit up his blue eyes and caused them to sparkle with warmth. "I look forward to it.”
Source: The Day of Reckoning
“Sometimes behind an old face looking with smiling eyes, we find not the happiness of the past but the pain of the past! Not every smile comes from happiness! If the pain is too much, smiling means nothing but a desperate protest against life!”
“There was nothing wistful or tentative about that smile. It came slowly, but ended in a total crunching of her features as though a winged cherub had just flown by and whispered a marvelously funny joke into her ear.”
Source: A Company of Swans
“We can also speak of the external enemy...destroying Tibetan rights and, in that way, more suffering and anxiety develops. But no matter how forceful this is, it cannot destroy the supreme source of my happiness, which is my calmness of mind. This is something an external enemy cannot destroy.”
Source: The Book of Compassion
“... I feel a free that I didn't feel in long time. And when I smile, it climb from inside my stomach and spread itself on my teeth.”
Source: The Girl with the Louding Voice
“Someone said I had smiled. But to my father, it was not a smile, just a small beautiful moment because he had not lost me forever.”
Source: I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
“I find it astonishing that in 2020, a smile or a hug has become an act of revolution.”
“I love the way you smile at me and squeeze my hand like you never noticed the many times I let you down.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“Pause, breathe and smile. Anything that adds to your stress is likely not worth pursuing.”
Source: The First Dancer: How to be the first among equals and attract unlimited opportunities
“Come on, D.J. You can tell me. Why are you so happy?' D.J. looked up at him. He said, 'You need a reason to be sad. You don't need a reason to be happy.”
Source: Sideways Stories from Wayside School