„A moment or an eternity—did it matter? Life, undefeated, existed and could exist. She smiled, her last smile, to so much that had been possible.“

— Ayn Rand

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„She had made the choice for him - in a moment of flight and panic, but she had made it - not realizing that her Jace would rather die than be like this, and that she'd been not so much saving his life as damning him to an existence he would despise.“
— Cassandra Clare
„Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about.“
— Marilyn Monroe
„It made her think that it was curious how much nicer a person looked when he smiled. She had not thought of it before.“
— Frances Hodgson Burnett
„She is smiling and her eyes are kind but now the smile is purely social“
— James Baldwin
„she may not be the most popular or prettiest but if you love her and she makes you smile.. what else matters?“
— Bob Marley
„Sören Kierkegaard has another answer: human existence is possible as existence not in despair, as existence not in tragedy; it is possible as existence in faith… Faith is the belief that in God the impossible is possible, that in Him time and eternity are one, that both life and death are meaningful.“
— Peter F. Drucker