“I didn't expect you to have learnt to smile yet. When one is born, one only knows how to cry. It's only very gradually that one learns to smile.”
Hólmfríður
Heimsljós (World Light) (1940), Book Two: The Palace of the Summerland
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Icelandic author 1902–1998Related quotes

“If you only have one smile in you, give it to the people you love.”

“True friendship is that feeling in which one loves, one has trust and spontaneous smiles are born.”
Original: La vera amicizia è quel sentimento in cui ci si vuol bene, si ha fiducia e nascono spontanei sorrisi.
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“I was a bore and didn't know when to smile or fake it. Or rather worse, I did but didn't.”
Source: At Terror Street And Agony Way