quotes about smiling even when it hurts

In a game of poker, I can put the players' souls in my pocket. ~Beausourire



One of the best things about paintings is their silence - which prompts reflection and random reverie. ~Mark Stevens



The light of the body is the eye; if then your eye is true, all your body will be full of light. ~Matthew 6:22



No poems can please for long or live that are written by water-drinkers. ~Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Satires



Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly. ~Rose Franken



The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology. ~E.F. Schumacher, Small is Beautiful, 1973



Take a man out of the trenches, make him a straw boss, and he develops a belly. ~Martin H. Fischer



He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him. ~George Orwell



Every writer I know has trouble writing. ~Joseph Heller



I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean. ~G.K. Chesterton



Travelers never think that they are the foreigners. ~Mason Cooley



Adults are obsolete children. ~Dr. Seuss



A song has a few rights the same as ordinary citizens... if it happens to feel like flying where humans cannot fly... to scale mountains that are not there, who shall stop it? ~Charles Ives



History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads. People get the history they deserve. ~Charles de Gaulle



You cannot fully understand your own life without knowing and thinking beyond your life, your own neighborhood, and even your own nation. ~Johnnetta Cole



God give me the strength to face a fact though it slay me. ~Thomas Huxley



The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industrial Revolution. (OK, it doesn't take a genius, or even a politician, to figure out that big changes are afoot when we have a medium that lets someone throw up a virtual storefront on the Web and instantly gain access to the global market.) ~Steven Levy, 1997



Open your heart - open it wide; someone is standing outside. ~Quoted in Believe: A Christmas Treasury by Mary Engelbreit Open your heart - open it wide; someone is standing outside. ~Quoted in Believe: A Christmas Treasury by Mary Engelbreit



Laughter is an orgasm triggered by the intercourse of sense and nonsense. ~Author Unknown



America is a nation with many flaws, but hopes so vast that only the cowardly would refuse to acknowledge them. ~James Michener