smile

A smile is the quickest, cheapest and easiest way to dramatically increase your lovely quotient.   The bigger the smile the better.

Scientific studies have shown that the facial expressions we make can influence the emotional response we experience. The more you smile, the more positive you feel.  Instead of focusing on the negative day you may be having, take a deep breathe and smile.  It really will change your outlook. 

A smile is contagious.  Here are some lovely quotes about smiles and smiling.

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Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
Mother Teresa

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
Joseph Addison

Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.
Thich Nhat Hanh
 
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Leo F. Buscaglia


Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.
John Ray

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
Mother Teresa

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

Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.
Greta Garbo

One who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger.
Japanese Proverb

The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.
Leo F. Buscaglia

Smile at each other, smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other -- it doesn't matter who it is -- and that will help you to grow up in greater love for each other.
Mother Teresa

The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.
William Shakespeare

You're never fully dressed without a smile.
Martin Charnin

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Smile and be lovely, today.  Don't just have a lovely day, make a lovely day! ;-)