Always keep your smile. That's how I explain my long life.
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Always keep your smile. That's how I explain my long life.
Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.
Fly me up to where you are beyond the distant star. I wish upon tonight to see you smile, if only for a while to know you're there. A breath away's not far to where you are.
Encourage everyone you meet with a smile or compliment. Make them feel better when you leave their presence and they will always be glad to see you coming.
And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.
Man is a knot into which relationships are tied.
I wanted to do another movie that could make us laugh and cry and feel good about the world. I wanted to do something else that could make us smile. This is a time when we need to smile more and Hollywood movies are supposed to do that for people in difficult times.
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.
I speak for those children who cannot speak for themselves, children who have absolutely nothing but their courage and their smiles, their wits and their dreams.
I've learned to lose with a smile on my face. That's what the Oscar teaches you.
You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you.
When I find a woman attractive, I have nothing at all to say. I simply watch her smile. Intellectuals take apart her face in order to explain it bit by bit, but they no longer see the smile.
A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.
All the awards in the world, you can get into all the nightclubs, they'll send you the nicest clothes. Nothing better than walking into your dad's restaurant and seeing a smile on his face and knowing that your mom and dad and your sister are real proud of you.
Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.
If you are coaching kids, the smile on a kid when he does the right thing, when he puts the ball in the net, that's the reward right there.
Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth.
Let a smile be your umbrella, and you'll end up with a face full of rain.
It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.
The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
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