The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.

—Malcolm de Chazal

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About Malcolm de Chazal

Malcolm de Chazal (12 September 1902 – 1 October 1981) was a Mauritian writer, painter, and visionary, known especially for his Sens-Plastique, a work consisting of several thousand aphorisms and pensées.

More quotations from Malcolm de Chazal

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

—Malcolm de Chazal

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

—Malcolm de Chazal

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He looked up at me and grinned, and again, I felt this strange urge to smile back. And I was not someone who smiled a lot.

—Sarah Dessen in What Happened to Goodbye

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Sometimes I wore smiles but didn't feel them. Sometimes I felt them and didn't wear them.

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

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I am getting better at smiling when people expect it.

—Laurie Halse Anderson in Speak

There's so much more to life than finding someone who will want you, or being sad over someone who doesn't. There's a lot of wonderful time to be spent discovering yourself without hoping someone will fall in love with you along the way, and it doesn't need to be painful or empty. You need to fill yourself up with love. Not anyone else. Become a whole being on your own. Go on adventures, fall asleep in the woods with friends, wander around the city at night, sit in a coffee shop on your own, write on bathroom stalls, leave notes in library books, dress up for yourself, give to others, smile a lot. Do all things with love, but don't romanticize life like you can't survive without it. Live for yourself and be happy on your own. It isn't any less beautiful.

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