"The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness."

Nabokov, Vladimir on existence
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"Smile and others will smile back. Smile to show how transparent, how candid you are. Smile if you have nothing to say. Most of all, do not hide the fact you have nothing to say nor your total indifference to others. Let this emptiness, this profound indifference shine out spontaneously in your smile."

Baudrillard, Jean on smile
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"There's a force in the universe that makes things happen. And all you have to do is get in touch with it, stop thinking, let things happen"

Webb, Ty on perception   

"Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve."

Fromm, Erich on existence
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"Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience."

Updike, John on existence
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"As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints."

Colton, Charles Caleb on tolerance
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"It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self."

Bacon, Francis on power
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"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."

Churchill, Winston on fanatics and fanaticism
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"Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day. Source unknown A spark of kindness starts a fire of love."

Unknown, Source on smile
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"One may smile, and smile, and be a villain. [Hamlet]"

Shakespeare, William on smile
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"A smile cures the wounding of a frown."

Shakespeare, William on smile
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"There are many kinds of smiles, each having a distinct character. Some announce goodness and sweetness, others betray sarcasm, bitterness and pride; some soften the countenance by their languishing tenderness, others brighten by their spiritual vivacity."

Lavater, Johann Kaspar on smile   

"A winning smile makes winners of us all."

Unknown, Source on smile   

"Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. What do we live for if not to make the world less difficult for each other?"

Eliot, George on smile
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"Most smiles are started by another smile."

Clark, Frank A. on smile
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"Whether joy or sorrowful, the heart needs a double, because a joy shared is doubled and a pain that is shared is divided."

Ruckett on art
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"The things you want are always possible; it is just that the way to get them is not always apparent. The only real obstacle in your path to a fulfilling life is you, and that can be a considerable obstacle because you carry the baggage of insecurities and past experience."

Brown, Les on possibilities
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"Your smile will give you a positive countenance that will make people feel comfortable around you."

Brown, Les on smile
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"All people smile in the same language."

Unknown, Source on smile
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"Start off everyday with a simple smile and get it over with."

Fields, W. C. on smile
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"I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that."

Bacall, Lauren on faces
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"Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well."

Rohn, Jim on maturity
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"Smile; it the second best thing one can do with one's lips."

Unknown, Source on smile
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"You haven't lost your smile at all, it's right under your nose. You just forgot it was there"

Unknown, Source on smile
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"You can say no and smile only when there's a bigger yes burning inside you"

Unknown, Source on smile
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"There are hundreds of languages in the world but a smile speaks them all."

Unknown, Source on smile   

"Children smile on the average 400 times/day; Adults: 15 times/day. Ever wonder why?"

Unknown, Source on smile
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"Attitude Adjuster: When you smile at someone, nine times out of 10 the other person will smile back and you've made two people's days brighter and better."

Unknown, Source on smile
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"The eyes see only what the mind is prepared to comprehend."

Davies, Robertson on eyes
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"Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?"

Shaw, George Bernard on jokes and jokers
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"When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us."

Keller, Helen on opportunity
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"Hope is the expectation that something outside of ourselves, something or someone external, is going to come to our rescue and we will live happily ever after."

Anthony, Dr. Robert on hope
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"Once a person says, This is who I really am, what I am all about, what I was really meant to do, it is easier to decide how to spend one's time."

Viscott, David on self-expression   

"When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up."

Brown, Les on perseverance
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"I will go anywhere, provided it be forward."

Livingstone, David on determination
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"With love and patience, nothing is impossible."

Ikeda, Daisaku on impossibility
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"If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles."

Sun Tzu on strategies
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"All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved."

Sun Tzu on strategies
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"Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves."

Barrie, Sir James M. on joy
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"The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style."

Swift, Jonathan on style
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