101 Free Ways to be Beautiful - #2 Smile

We've all heard it.  

Smile, and the world smiles with you.

It takes seventeen muscles to smile and forty-three to frown.

A smile is just a frown upside down.

There are so many ways smiling makes us beautiful.  I mean, come on, how many times have you heard "Oh, she has such a beautiful scowl".  I know it's difficult at times but if you practice, and give yourself permission to smile more, even if you don't feel like it, you'll be amazed at the changes that will happen in your life.

People like people who smile.

It's that simple.  When you meet someone who smiles at you, it sends a message of friendship and safety.  It's positive, inspiring communication without saying a word!  When you smile at someone, especially in today's society, it could be just the thing that turns their day around.  What's not beautiful about that?

Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing. ~ Mother Theresa

Smiling brightens your face.

 

Seriously, people seem to have a brighter light to them when they're smiling.  A happy glow.  It works from the inside out. It increases beta endorphines and lowers stress, worry and tension levels. It's good for your health and healthy people are more attractive.

I have never seen a smiling face that was not beautiful. 

~Anonymous

Smiling can make you more successful.

It increases energy, motivation and drive by increasing positive energy and can make you more popular.  Who wants to hang around the grouch with the slouch?  It's also habit forming so over time the little acts of positive energy will multiply and magnify.  Smiling reduces negativity and puts it on hold for a while.  It helps put you in a positive state and in that state you have more power and potential to shine.  There's a reason that almost all advertising photos have people with big smiles.  A smile is the universal language of good things.

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword. 

~Charles Reade

So.  What are you waiting for?  It's free.  It's beautiful. It's contagious.  It can change the world.  And it's one habit that's good for you.  It's the first step to feeling better and better.  When you feel better, you look better.... 

“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile,

 but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.”
~Thich Nhat Hanh