WHAT A SMILE SAYS

The person at whom we smile, smiles back. In one sense, he smiles at us. In a deeper sense, his smile reports the sudden well-being we have enabled him to experience. He smiles because our smile has made him feel smile-deserving. We have, so to speak, picked him out of the crowd. We have differentiated him and given him individualism status. — Bonaro Overstreet

Learn to smile on the inside. It is your FEELING that gets across to the customer’s sub-conscious — not your facial expression. Consciously trying to smile by mechanically manipulating the muscles of your mouth does more harm than good. Instead, forget about your mouth and smile mentally. Imagine that you feel “smiley” inside. When you do this you are relaxed, for it is impossible to feel friendly and be tense, or to feel hostile and be relaxed. — J. A. Kennedy

SENECA ON OLD AGE

We should welcome old age and love it; it is full of pleasure if you know how to use it. Fruit tastes best when its season is ending; a boy is handsomest at boyhood’s close; and it is the last drink which brings the toper delight, the one that submerges him and polishes off his jag. Every pleasure saves its most agreeable scene for the finale. . . Old and young alike should have death before their eyes.

I have found that the best way to get another to acquire a virtue, is to impute it to him. — Winston Churchill

Trust men and they will be true to you. — Emerson

The thing is to understand myself, to see what God really wished me to do; the thing is to find the idea for which I can live and die. — Kierkegaard

Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child — if no use is made of the past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge. — Cicero

The best way to determine character: the moral attitude that is felt most deeply, and makes one intensely active and alive-this is the real me. — William James