Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
And the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.
The smile of God is victory.
But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next.
Thus first of all in His own person He sanctified, restored, and blessed human nature.
Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.
Nothing can resist the person who smiles at life - I don't mean the ironic and disillusioned smile of my grandfather, but the triumphant smile of the person who knows that he will survive, or that at least he will be saved by what seems to be destroying him.
Smiles form the channels of a future tear.
Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.