In personal life, the warm glow of nostalgia amplifies good memories and minimizes bad ones about experiences and relationships, encouraging us to revisit and renew our ties with friends and family. It always involves a little harmless self-deception, like forgetting the pain of childbirth.

A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

Success can be as simple as the warm feeling you get when you smile at a stranger, someone you know must be lonely, and having that stranger return your smile. It can be the bringing of a child into the world and raising that child to be a good man or woman.

A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

A friendship has to be cultivated. A friendship you have to give time.

A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.

The group has always been based on friendship and a certain attitude.

What I particularly like about Broadway is the camaraderie and the friendship of other people in other shows. Everybody knows you're opening and cares about you. There's a real village atmosphere.

As a former waitress myself, I know firsthand how a simple smile from someone can improve your day and how a single harsh word can destroy it. Being courteous and thoughtful costs you nothing and can sometimes pay you dividends in unexpected ways.

Kindness is wisdom.

Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.

Where ever the spirit of Christ is known, there is much of good will, of mutual respect, of love and appreciation and kindness.

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.

Cherish your human connections - your relationships with friends and family.

A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women I have known.

There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament.

Your smile will give you a positive countenance that will make people feel comfortable around you.

There's nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone on the street.

Even an animal, if you show genuine affection, gradually trust develops... If you always showing bad face and beating, how can you develop friendship?

Friendship and sentiment and the giving of one's words are very important.

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

The loving parts of your personality have no trouble loving. That is all they do. You experience the loving parts of as gratitude, appreciation, caring, patience, contentment and awe of life.

Patience with family members and others who are close to us is vital for us to have happy homes.

Nothing. We're all friends and friendly. So when the cameras go down, depending on the mood or the nature of the material we're dealing with, there's usually a kind of a prevailing light attitude that's floating around.

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

Home is where you feel at home and are treated well.

Friendship is something that is cultivated.

Great men show politeness in a particular way; a smile suffices to assure you that you are welcome, and keep about their avocations as if you were a member of the family.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

People judge you really quickly, at first just on your facial features. There are two dimensions - warmth and competence. You can think of them as trustworthiness and strength. They're first judging you on warmth; evaluating whether or not you are trustworthy. That's much more important to them than whether or not you're competent.

Value your friendship. Value your relationships.

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.

The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.

Manners are love in a cool climate.

Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.

Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

I like friendship.

Standing as a witness in all things means being kind in all things, being the first to say hello, being the first to smile, being the first to make the stranger feel a part of things, being helpful, thinking of others' feelings, being inclusive.

A smile is the universal welcome.

Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.

The cool kindliness of sheets, that soon smooth away trouble; and the rough male kiss of blankets.

Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business. Large stores, gilt signs, flaming advertisements, will all prove unavailing if you or your employees treat your patrons abruptly. The truth is, the more kind and liberal a man is, the more generous will be the patronage bestowed upon him.

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Passion and kindness are the most attractive qualities. Sense of humour is up there, but kindness becomes more important as you get older. You realise the funny, charming ones aren't always the best people.

It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.

Many a friendship, long, loyal, and self-sacrificing, rested at first on no thicker a foundation than a kind word.

Positive feelings come from being honest about yourself and accepting your personality, and physical characteristics, warts and all; and, from belonging to a family that accepts you without question.

The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.

Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.

In romance, we feel the need to zoom in and expound on our partner's foibles in intimate detail; in friendship, we tend to do the opposite, avoiding confrontation through fear, lethargy or both.

Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.