“Smile and the world smiles with you, cry and you cry alone.”
Source: Girl, Interrupted
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“3. When he smiles at you, sometimes you feel like crying.”
Bisco Hatori (1975) Japanese manga artist
Source: Ouran High School Host Club, Vol. 13
“Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.”
Dr. Seuss (1904–1991) American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books
Often attributed to Dr. Seuss without citation; also cited as an anonymous proverb.
This quote has also been attributed to Gabriel García Márquez, in Spanish: "No llores porque ya se terminó, sonríe porque sucedió."
Compare lines from In Memoriam A.H.H. of Tennyson:
  'Tis better to have loved and lost
  Than never to have loved at all.
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Variant: Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.
Halldór Laxness (1902–1998) Icelandic author
Hólmfríður
Heimsljós (World Light) (1940), Book Two: The Palace of the Summerland
Nicholas Sparks book A Walk to Remember
Variant: First you will smile, and then you will cry -- don't say you haven't been warned.
Source: A Walk to Remember
“Chin up, don’t smile, don’t cry, don’t fall, walk.”
Cecelia Ahern (1981) Irish novelist
Source: One Hundred Names
“Remember me and smile, for it's better to forget than to remember me and cry.”
Dr. Seuss (1904–1991) American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books
“Crying can bring relief, as long as you don't cry alone.”
Anne Frank (1929–1945) victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary
Source: The Diary of a Young Girl
“In life we will smile, laugh, cry, bleed, die and finally laugh again.”
Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author