Famous Quotes

"When trying to remember my share in the glow of the eternal present, in the smile of God, I return to my childhood, too, for that is where the most significant discoveries turn up."

Herman Hesse on Smile

More quotes about Smile

• "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 on Smile

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

  Dr. Seuss on Smile

• "Look back, and smile on perils past."

  Walter Scott on Smile

• "A warm smile is the universal language of kindness."

  William Arthur Ward on Smile

• "A smile is a curve that sets everything straight."

  Phyllis Diller on Smile

More quotes by Herman Hesse

• "Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life."

• "This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification."

• "It was as if all of the happiness, all of the magic of this blissful hour had flowed together into these stirring, bittersweet tones and flowed away, becoming temporal and transitory once more."

• "For me, however, that beloved, glowing little word happiness has become associated with everything I have felt since childhood upon hearing the sound of the word itself."

• "Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age."