#smiles

The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder. ↗

— Jim Morrison

#destroy #faces #force #kind #loving

When Fortune smiles, I smile to think how quickly she will frown. ↗

— Robert Southwell

#frown #how #i #quickly #she

I am persuaded that every time a man smiles - but much more so when he laughs - it adds something to this fragment of life. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

#am #every #every time #fragment #i

A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles. ↗

— Washington Irving

#everything #fountain #gladness #heart #into

Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers. ↗

— Ovid

#jupiter #lovers #smiles

It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem. ↗

— Amelia Barr

#alike #know #little #little men #men

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#brave #distress #gathers #grows #man

I wondered if my smile was as big as hers. Maybe as big. But not as beautiful. ↗

— Benjamin Alire Sáenz

#mothers #mums #smile #smiles #beauty

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort. ↗

— Humphry Davy

#duties #given #great #habitually #heart

Whever I came into the room, she'd light up, so happy to see me. No one ever in the course of my entire life was ever as happy to see me as she was. Looking back, now, I realize that you only ever need one person who lights up that way when you enter a room. One person is all it takes to give a kid confidence. ↗

— Adriana Trigiani

#love #smiles #life