you mimic their expression unconsciously, which then tells your brain what to feel. All this happens in a few hundred milliseconds.

When you're smiling, the whole world smiles with you

Contagious smiling (and frowning and scowling and so on) is the basis of reading others' emotions and registering how you should, in turn, feel.

We tend to mimic the smiles or frowns of others because it helps us better understand what other people are feeling, allowing us to respond appropriately.

Evidence shows that an instinct for facial mimicry allows us to empathize with and even experience other people's feelings.

“Facial mimicry certainly plays some role, and perhaps a key role, in understanding other people’s emotional states,” Dr. Kevin Ochsner

A person's ability to recognize and "share" others' emotions can be inhibited when they can't mimic faces, even from something as simple as long-term pacifier use.

We are unconsciously learning things by what we see and that's why infants mimic their parents behavior. When they smile to them, they smile back.

Each time you smile, you throw a little feel-good party in your brain. The act of smiling activates neural messaging that benefits your health and happiness.

smiling activates the release of neuropeptides that work toward fighting off stress.

the serotonin release brought on by your smile serves as an anti-depressant/mood lifter.

when you view a person smiling, you actually feel rewarded.

When you smile,you are creating a symbiotic relationship that allows both of you to release feel-good chemicals in your brain, activate reward centers, make you both more attractive, and increase the chances of you both living longer, healthier lives.

First stage: You see an expressive face You need to know what the expression means so you can react effectively.

Second stage: You simulate the facial expression Simulation uses the same areas of your brain that cause your facial expressions- it may therefore cause you to mimic the expression.

Third stage: The simulation tells you how it feels to make that expression The context or your knowledge about the expresser may have an influence.

This quick, automatic, and unconscious process allows you to connect the subtle emotion signals of others to your own emotion experiences.

Smiling makes us happier Smiling triggers a reduction in stress-enhancing hormones and increases the production of mood-enhancing hormones.

Even forcing a “fake” smile when you’re not truly feeling it has been shown to reduce stress and result in more positive feelings.

Genuine smiles might help people see eye-to-eye during interactions. People who often make genuine smiles may have an easier time convincing others to adopt their goals.

The world is simply a better place when you smile.

I wanted to play football or be a boxer, but my dad didn't want that because of all the impact. But in 1992 I was watching short track, and it was obscure, but they looked like superheroes in their tight outfits, and I thought it was amazing. I wanted to do that. I made the national team at 14.

Art for arts sake makes no more sense than gin for gins sake.

My workspace is defined by books, ephemera, quiet and light. I don't have a computer, telephone or a fax machine there.

I'm very aware there are lots of other people who are just bright and working just as hard, with just the same dedication to make the world a good place.

Have goals, Chase dreams, but do not let your happiness depend on their acheivement.

Always gone but never hard to find.. And since you can't escape me, do I ever cross your mind?

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.

Hitchcock had a very strange mind.

There is a big difference between being centered and being self-centered.

It's not every day you do something that's never been done before.

As a kid, Terry Bradshaw didn't amaze me. My hero was Steelers backup Terry Hanratty, who nabbed two Super Bowl rings while completing three passes.

I'm proud to have so many great friends at country radio who believe in what I do - thanks to all of them.

I went to art school, and I wanted to be an artist since I was 5. I basically moved to New York to do art, and I just sort of fell into doing music at an early age.

I have a great family by the way, but you need to find people who can pull something out from you that might be otherwise unseen.

Blush at your faults.

I don't have to be what nobody else wants me to be and I am not afraid to be what I want to be.

There's Hezbollah, there's Hamas, there is a whole range of terrorist targets out there related to Palestine and to Israel that we ought to be trying to deal with. And there's a great deal of targets in the Philippines, Indonesia. You name it, there are a number of places where there are targets that we ought to be trying to deal with.

A leader who is a benevolent dictator is actually a democrat by spirit.

I know how to run a nationally paced campaign.

Fanatics do not have faith - they have belief. With faith you let go. You trust. Whereas with belief you cling.

A niece is someone special to remember with warmth, think of with pride, and cherish with love.

I'm not running away from the fact that I had previously said I did not contemplate a major increase, and that was a fair statement of the Government's state of mind at the time I made that.

I don't want to look like Daisy Duke every day. I don't want to wear a bathing suit every day.

Any great character is the combination of a brilliant actor and the right writing.