Best Smile And Tears Quotes

Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.

How oddly do life and death jostle each other in this strange world of ours! How nearly allied are smiles and tears!

She whom smiles and tears make equally lovely may command all hearts.

Long time a child, and still a child, when years Had painted manhood on my cheek, was I; For yet I lived like one not born to die; A thriftless prodigal of smiles and tears— No hope I needed, and I knew no fears. But sleep, though sweet, is only sleep—and waking, I waked to sleep no more; at once o’ertaking The vanguard of my age, with all arrears Of duty on my back. Nor child, nor man, Nor youth, nor sage, I find my head is gray, For I have lost the race I never ran. A rathe December blights my lagging May: And still I am a child, though I be old Time is my debtor for my days untold.

One’s life story cannot be told with complete veracity. A true autobiography would have to be written in states of mind, emotions, heartbeats, smiles and tears; not in months and years, or physical events. Life is marked off on the soul by feelings, not by dates.

The worst kind of pain is when you’re smiling just to stop the tears from falling.

Nothing is more beautiful than a smile that has struggled through tears

Best friends are made are made through smiles and tears, and sometimes that fades away through miles and years.

But smiles and tears are so alike with me, they are neither of them confined to any particular feelings: I often cry when I am happy, and smile when I am sad.