In today's communication age, a conversation feels incomplete without adding a smiley to it. The first smiley face was created in the year 1963 by Harvey Ball, a commercial artist from Massachusetts. But Ball realised over time that the essence of using his emoticon had died and smileys became more commercialised. So he dedicated a day for just spreading smiles and kind acts throughout the world, with the World Smile Day. He declared the first Friday in October each year to be marked as World Smile Day. The day has been marked since the year 1999 and do we really need a reason to smile, after all? It is such a pure, beautiful expression that any human can put forth and sometimes speak so much with just that. On World Smile Day 2019, we give you perfect sayings, quotes and messages which you can forward to everyone and spread more smiles indeed.

Although Harvey Ball died in the year 2001, a  Harvey Ball World Smile Foundation was created to honour his name and memory. This organisation is the official sponsor of marking this day every year. The day just aims at cheering up out of kindness. Today with so many options of emoticons in our smartphones, the good old smiley can be forgotten. But it somehow still seems incomplete without adding the yellow symbol at the end of your sentences. Smile is definitely a kind reception and what better way to spread some smiles on this day. So we give you a lovely collection of smile quotes which you can pass on to your friends and family, and wish to spread happiness further.

Lovely Quotes on Smile For World Smile Day 2019

    • "Nothing you wear is more important than your smile." – Connie Stevens

    • "Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day."

    • "Always wear a smile because you never know whose watching." - Gracie Gold

    • "I've had to learn to fight all my life - got to learn to keep smiling. If you smile things will work out." - Serena Williams

    • "Life is like a mirror. Smile at it and it smiles back at you." - Peace Pilgrim

    • "Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing." ​– Mother Teresa

    • "Smiling is the best way to face every problem, to crush every fear and to hide every pain."

    • "Making one person smile can change the world. Maybe not the whole world, but their world." - John Spence

      All of the above quotes highlight the fact that a smile is so wonderful and why one should never refrain from giving one, even to a stranger if it may be. Even on a personal level, one feels so good after smiling. It is one of the best ways of expression that we have got and while we all stress on daily life and problems, a smile just makes it better.

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