The smile on the face is the blooming of the joy that fills the heart; it wafts away discontent and depression from other faces. (SSS Vol.19)

Only when you have sacred thoughts, sacred feelings and sacred ideas in your mind, will you be able to live a happy and cheerful life. If there are bad thoughts torturing you, then whenever somebody comes and talks to you, even if you try to smile, your smile will be artificial and it will betray the disturbed inner state in your heart. You should not allow yourself to be driven to such a state. Always keep yourself happy. When will you be happy and joyous? Only when your thoughts are good and sacred. In order to have such good and sacred thoughts in your mind you should exercise control over your thoughts. (SBGita)

Every one has to make his exit some day; that moment should not be a moment of anguish; one should depart gracefully, with a smile and a bow. In order to do that, a lot of preparation is necessary. To depart, leaving all that has been accumulated during a long lifetime, is a hard task; so prepare for it by discarding attachment to one thing after another from now on.

You see many things in dreams and many things are acquired by you during dreams: power, pelf, status, reputation. But when you awake, you do not weep over the loss, even though for the duration of the dream all that was very real and gave you real satisfaction and joy. That was a dream , you tell yourself; what prevents you from treating with similar nonchalance the possessions gathered during the waking stage of your life? Cultivate that attitude and you can depart with a smile whenever the curtain falls on this dreamland stage. (SSS Vol.1)

The life which begins with a wail must end with a smile. When you were a little baby, all round you smiled though you kept on wailing. But when you die all around you must weep at the loss and you should smile in peace and quiet resignation. The bhoganandam (pleasures from sensual enjoyment) must finally be converted into yoganandam (happiness from divine union); the pleasures of the senses must gradually be left behind and you must develop a taste for the higher and more lasting pleasure derivable from the springs of your own personality. For Yoga (divine union), Bhakti (devotion to God) is the main thing, the head and the crown; shanti and santhosham (peace and happiness) are the other essentials. (SSS Vol.1)

Skill is a trust, which must benefit all. Service done in homes for the disabled, the defectives, the feeble-minded, the delinquents, the orphans, the refugees, is very beneficial and a good Sadhana. So too, service in jails and hospitals. Visit these places often, give solace and strength; light the lamp of devotion in the inmates. Do Bhajan; help them to write to their homes, give them books for reading or read books for them, be the kith and kin of those who have none whom they can call their own. Your smile will be a lighted candle in their darkness. (SSS Vol. 6, p. 107)

I always smile at those who deride Me, and even those who praise Me. I am always full of happiness, whatever may happen. Nothing can come in the way of My Smile. Derision and calumny only tend to make it grow better and happier. (SSS Vol.5)

Nearness to Me is not acquired by physical nearness. You may be by My side, but yet far; you may be far, far away, but yet, very near and dear. However far you are, if you but stick to Satya, Dharma, Shanti and Prema, you are close to Me and I am close to you. Those are the milestones that mark the road to Me. (SSS Vol.5, p. 334)

Have a smile ever playing on your face. Do not come between those anxious to have Darshan and Me. They may, in their resentment, push you roughly aside; you have then no right to retaliate. You should reply with a smile, an apology, a polite explanation accompanied with a Namaste, and folded hands.

There are various habits which can be learnt in order to ensure equanimity. When some one insults you or defames you or ignores you, accept it with a smile; this is the way of the world; it is basically ungrateful, ill-mannered, they are doing me a good turn, my strength is under trial, I should not yield to anger or resentment, tell yourself such invigorating things, and be quiet, with a smile of triumph on your lips. (SSS Vol.12)