There's a Reason to Smile Every Day This Week

Smile, smile, smile. It's National Smile Week August 5th - August 11th. 

Some Benefits of Smiling

• lowers blood pressure
• boosts immunity
• relieves stress
• puts others at ease
• creates a positive atmosphere
• lights up your face
• it's an international language that everyone understands

Words of Wisdom to Help you Smile

A smile is a facelift that's in everyone's price range!

Tom Wilson

A smile is the light in your window that tells others 
that there is a caring, sharing person inside.

Denis Waitley

A smile is the universal welcome.

Max Eastman

A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.

William Arthur Ward

Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

Dr. Seuss

I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts 
by a simple smile.

Goldie Hawn

A smile is happiness you'll find right under your nose.

Tom Wilson

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, 
not only we, but everyone will profit from it. 
This is the most basic kind of peace work.

Nhat Hanh

If the world's a veil of tears, Smile till rainbows span it.

Lucy Larcom

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

George Eliot

If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

Maya Angelou

If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.

Andy Rooney

If you walk down the street and smile at someone, that will get passed on to the next person. That has the power to change someone's day.

Julianna Margulies

Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.

Henry Ward Beecher

Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face.

Malcolm De Chazal

Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.

Paramahansa Yogananda

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

Mother Teresa

Nobody needs a smile so much as the one who has none to give. So get used to smiling heart-warming smiles, and you will spread sunshine in a sometimes dreary world.

Lawrence G. Lovasik

Nothing you wear is more important than your smile.

Connie Stevens

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, 
but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
Nhat Hanh

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, 
soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile 
when everything goes dead wrong.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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 Buscaglia

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.

Mother Teresa

The catch phrase for the day is 'Do an act of kindness. 
Help one person smile.'

Harvey Ball

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