#smiles

Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone. This simple goodness shines straight from their hearts and only asks to be loved. ↗

— Michael Jackson

#children #divine #everyone #goodness #hearts

The more he smiled, the more I wanted to hate him, and yet it was the very thing that made hating him impossible. ↗

— Jamie McGuire

#love-story #smiles #love

Smiles come naturally to me, but I started thinking of them as an art form at my command. I studied all the time. I looked at magazines, I'd practice in front of the mirror and I'd ask photographers about the best angles. I can now pull out a smile at will. ↗

— Tyra Banks

#angles #art #art form #ask #best

Furthermore, the slaves cannot be put into a more wretched situation, ourselves being judges, and the community cannot take a more lively step to escape ruin, and obtain the smiles and protection of Heaven. ↗

— Samuel Hopkins

#cannot #community #escape #furthermore #heaven

Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of today, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow. ↗

— Susanna Moodie

#beams #behind #clouds #dark #encouraging

As to the mouth, it delights at times in laughter; it is disposed to impart all that the brain conceives; though I daresay it would be silent on much the heart experiences. Mobile and flexible, it was never intended to be compressed in the eternal silence of solitude: it is a mouth which should speak much and smile often, and have human affection for its interlocutor. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#laughter #smiles #experience

The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs. ↗

— Malcolm De Chazal

#flower #laughs #longer #smiles #vase