Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.

For this to happen today, of all days! It felt like a wink from God.

A word or a smile is often enough to put fresh life in a despondent soul.

Sometimes that’s all it takes, the kind of recognition that comes when you’re doing the thing for the thing’s sake and you’re on to something — it’s just that nobody recognizes it yet.

Sometimes all it takes is a tiny shift of perspective to see something familiar in a totally new light.

In moments of surprise we catch at least a glimpse of the joy to which gratefulness opens the door.

A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.

Sometimes a change of perspective is all it takes to see the light.

nudge techniques,” small interventions that encourage people to behave in slightly different ways at critical moments

I smiled, and you winked. I think. Perhaps you merely blink with one eye at a time.

Sometimes, all you have to do is shift your perspective to see someone else’s truth.

He had been for many years, a quiet silent man, associating but little with other men, and used to companionship with his own thoughts. He had never known before the strength of the want in his heart for the frequent recognition of a nod, a look, a word; or the immense amount of relief that had been poured into it by drops through such small means.

A little kindness makes a big difference.

— for though he never after went to the house, yet he never met <i>Bridget</i> in the village, but he would either nod or wink, or smile, or look kindly at her, — or (as circumstances directed), he would shake her by the hand, — or ask her lovingly how she did, — or would give her a ribban, — and now and then, though never but when it could be done with decorum, would give <i>Bridget</i> a —