Suzanne Collins Quotes

A smile costs nothing, but creates much, It happens in a flash, but the memory of it lasts forever, It cannot be bought, begged, borrowed nor stolen, but it is Something that is no earthly good to anyone until it is given away. So if in your hurry and rush You meet someone, who is too weary to give you a smile, Leave one of yours, For no one needs a smile quite as much as the one who has "Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage.

I receive kindness every day. I love to smile when I'm out and about, and if someone smiles back, which happens about half the time, I think that's an act of kindness every couple of minutes in my day.

When persons manifest the least kindness and love to me, O what power it has over my mind, while the opposite course has a tendency to harrow up all the harsh feelings and depress the human mind.

I watched her, waiting. She smiled. Her lips curved up and the edges, and her chocolate eyes warmed. I’d just admitted to stalking her, and she was smiling.

When your fear touches someone’s pain, it becomes pity, when your love touches someone’s pain, it become compassion.

Let us use love and compassion. Peace begins with a smile. Smile five times a day at someone you don't really want to smile at at all. Do it for peace.

An ear can break a human heart As quickly as a spear, We wish the ear had not a heart So dangerously near.

...smile first, then speak.

It will be the people with the greatest love, not the most information, who will influence us to change.

I am inspired by seeing kindness in others. It touches me and reminds me to be kind as well.

Good acts are like good poems. One may easily get their drift, but they are not rationally understood.

Am I a fool to hope for kindness/support from someone u have given nothing but that to?

A great smile is a wonderful asset, but a good heart is pure gold.

People’s souls are like gardens. You can’t turn your back on someone because his garden’s full of weeds. You have to give him water and lots of sunshine.

Smile if you want a smile from another face.

He must have smiled at me, though I don't really know, but I don't like to think that I would love someone who hadn't first smiled at me.

My smile is my favorite part of my body. I think a smile can make your whole body.

That is what thrills me, personally. Small acts of kindness; thoughtful, large acts of kindness. I feel like we're in a bit of a precipice, and I think that any beautiful energy on the kindness continuum will just help us fall into a lovelier place.

Sometimes I want to be human for you.

People will not lend you a hand until you first touch their hearts.

And there is not anything in the world stronger than tenderness.

A smile can change the situation of the world.

A smile across the aisle of a bus in the morning could save a suicide later in the day.

I tell you this to break your heart, by which I mean only that it break open and never close again to the rest of the world.

Nine times out of ten, when you extend your arms to someone, they will step in, because basically they need precisely what you need.