From Denny: With all the negativity swirling around us, the depressing national conversation about the BP Gulf oil spill, we need relief. What could take our minds off all the nagging news than to talk about smiling?
Even the ancient Taoists taught about The Inner Smile to relieve tension, stress, and build up our immune systems.
Take a moment, read a little, think good thoughts and refresh yourself and enjoy the funny photographers over at flickr!
Quotes
* Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day. - Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
* A smile confuses an approaching frown. - Anonymous
* People seldom notice old clothes if you wear a big smile. - Lee Mildon
* A smile is a curve that sets everything straight. - Phyllis Diller
* Smile. Have you ever noticed how easily puppies make human friends? Yet all they do is wag their tails and fall over. - Walter Anderson, The Confidence Course, 1997
* The world always looks brighter from behind a smile. - Anonymous
* Start every day with a smile and get it over with. - W.C. Fields
* Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available. - Jim Beggs
* A smile is an inexpensive way to change your looks. - Charles Gordy
* Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. - Mark Twain, Following the Equator
* The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief. - William Shakespeare, Othello
* A smile is the light in the window of your face that tells people you're at home. - Anonymous
* If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it. - Andy Rooney
* If you smile at someone, they might smile back. - Anonymous
* Life is like a mirror, we get the best results when we smile at it. - Anonymous
* Always remember to be happy because you never know who's falling in love with your smile. - Anonymous
* Everyone smiles in the same language. - Anonymous
* If you don't have a smile, I'll give you one of mine. - Anonymous
* I've never seen a smiling face that was not beautiful. - Anonymous
* Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. - George Eliot
* She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket. - Raymond Chandler
* Smiling is infectious,
You can catch it like the flu.
Someone smiled at me today,
And I started smiling too.
- Anonymous
* A smile appeared upon her face as if she'd taken it directly from her handbag and pinned it there. - Loma Chandler
* A laugh is a smile that bursts. - Mary H. Waldrip
* Smile - sunshine is good for your teeth. - Anonymous
* The shortest distance between two people is a smile. - Anonymous
* If you don't start out the day with a smile, it's not too late to start practicing for tomorrow. - Anonymous
* Smiling is my favorite exercise. - Anonymous
* I have a tickle in my brain. And it keeps making the corners of my mouth point toward the heavens. - Jeb Dickerson, www.howtomatter.com
* Wear a smile - one size fits all. - Anonymous
* No matter how grouchy you're feeling,
You'll find the smile more or less healing.
It grows in a wreath
All around the front teeth -
Thus preserving the face from congealing.
- Anthony Euwer
* Every day you spend without a smile, is a lost day. - Anonymous
* Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing. - Mother Teresa
* A friendly look, a kindly smile, one good act, and life's worthwhile. - Anonymous
* A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles. - Washington Irving
* Beauty is power; a smile is its sword. - Charles Reade
* A smile is the universal welcome. - Max Eastman
* Keep smiling - it makes people wonder what you've been up to. - Anonymous
* You're never fully dressed without a smile. - Martin Charnin
* A smile can brighten the darkest day. - Anonymous
* It takes seventeen muscles to smile and forty-three to frown. - Anonymous
* Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important. - Janet Lane
* All the statistics in the world can't measure the warmth of a smile. - Chris Hart
* If you would like to spoil the day for a grouch, give him a smile. - Anonymous
* Smile - it increases your face value. - Anonymous
* Peace begins with a smile. - Mother Teresa
* A smile is a powerful weapon; you can even break ice with it. ~Author Unknown
* Most smiles are started by another smile. - Anonymous
* A smile is something you can't give away; it always comes back to you. - Anonymous
* A smile costs nothing but gives much. It enriches those who receive without making poorer those who give. It takes but a moment, but the memory of it sometimes lasts forever. None is so rich or mighty that he cannot get along without it and none is so poor that he cannot be made rich by it. Yet a smile cannot be bought, begged, borrowed, or stolen, for it is something that is of no value to anyone until it is given away. Some people are too tired to give you a smile. Give them one of yours, as none needs a smile so much as he who has no more to give. - Anonymous
* It takes a lot of work from the face to let out a smile, but just think what good smiling can bring to the most important muscle of the body... the heart. - Anonymous
* A smile is the universal welcome. - Max Eastman
* A warm smile is the universal language of kindness. - William Arthur Ward
* Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful. - Thich Nhat Hanh
* Don't cry for a man who has left you, the next one may fall for your smile. - Mae West
* If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning 'Good morning' at total strangers. - Maya Angelou
* If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it. - Andy Rooney
* It takes seventeen muscles to smile and forty-three to frown. - Anonymous
I guess I'm lazy 'cause I go for just the 17... :)
* Wear a smile. One size fits all. - Anonymous
Photo Credits
You are never fully dressed without a smile photo by serendipity @ flickr
Smile and the whole world smiles with you boy against white flowers photo by Zanastardust @ flickr
Smiling white-faced dog by Rennett Stowe @ flickr
Funny pink heart glasses smile by Pink Sherbet Photography @ flickr
Little girl in yellow giggling by MelvinSchlubman @ flickr
Funny Bozo nose smile by pulguita @ flickr
Smile food plate by the_moment @ flickr
Underwater smile by Jonf728 @ flickr
Funny smiling cat by [puamelia] @ flickr
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