Smile…smile…smile…
Thursday, January 22nd, 2009There is a great woman who has been a part of my fitness boot camps since last May. One thing that has caught my attention since the first day that I had met her is this consistent and sensational smile she brings with her EVERY single time you see her. Today she brought me and everyone in the boot camp class a printed writing that someone gave her over thirty years ago. This is what it says:
Anonymous:
A smile costs nothing but creates much.
It enriches those who receive without impoverishing
those who give. It happens in a flash and the
memory of it sometimes lasts forever.
None are so rich they can get along
without it and none so poor but both
are richer for its benefits. It creates
happiness in the home, fosters good will
in a business and is the
countersign of friends. It is rest to the weary,
daylight to the discouraged, sunshine
to the sad and nature’s best antidote
for trouble. Yet it cannot be bought,
begged, borrowed or stolen; for it is
something that is no earthly good to
anybody until it is given away. Nobody
needs a smile so much as those
who have none left to give.