Keep Smiling Quotes
“A smile is a curve that sets everything straight”
– Phyllis Diller
“Life is like a mirror. Smile at it and it smiles back at you”
– Peace Pilgrim
“A smile is happiness you’ll find right under your nose”
– Tom Wilson
“You’re smile looks beautiful on you, you should wear it more often”
– Unknown
“A single smile can turn a bad moment good”
– Sherrilyn Kenyon
“Smile to the future and it will smile back to you.”
– Yoko Ono
“You’ll find that life is still worthwhile, if you just smile.”
— Charlie Chaplin
“It takes a lot of energy to be negative. You have to work at it. But smiling is painless. I’d rather spend my energy smiling.”
– Eric Davis
“Smiling does not necessarily mean you’re happy. Sometimes it just means you’re strong.”
–Nishan Panwar
“Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.”
– Thich Nhat Hanh
We often seem to forget how much power can be experienced by some of the smallest gestures.
Take a smile for example.
This tiny act has has the ability to instantly change our own mood as well as the mood of others.
It’s such a simple expression yet it yields such great benefits.
Don’t believe me? Try it now.
Smiling instantly makes us feel happier by releasing endorphins and serotonin which boosts our mood and increases positive thoughts.
Smiling keeps us younger
Smiles are also contagious to those around us and smiling makes us more attractive looking.
Smiling is even a natural way to make us look younger.
When we are smiling we are engaging face muscles that lift our face – this results in us looking more youthful.
According to a collection of several studies found on www.sclhealth.org, some healthy benefits of smiling are:
- helps us to handle stress better and reduce our heartrate
- creates a ripple effect which causes others to smile too
- makes us more happy and productive at work
Smiling makes us happier
The simple act of smiling makes us happier.
But what if we are faking it?
As observed in smile research, an improvement in mood was measured in participants whether their smiles were fake or genuine.
It was found that simply changing our facial expressions can influence our mood.
This is based on sciencedaily.com, which published an article based on 50 years of data collection on facial expressions and feelings.
This meta-analysisA meta-analysis is a statistical analysis that combines the research results of multiple scientific studies on the same topic. More of 138 studies and over 11,000 participants found that facial expressions have “a small impact on our feelings”.
Sure it’s only a ‘small impact’, but if we are looking at investment and reward, it’s a pretty significant benefit for such little effort.
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