Little Luxuries Quotes

#1. Public libraries are our great teachers and storytellers, and are a vital adjunct to our schools. In this day of standardized and homogenized education, a library offers individual and personalized learning opportunities second to none.

Julie Andrews

#2. The gradual decline of a society is often a self-induced process of trying to meet ever-expanding appetites, rather than a physical inability to produce past levels of food and fuel, or to maintain adequate defense.

Victor Davis Hanson

#3. What if all my silly little individual purchases do matter? What if I joined a different movement, one that was less enticed by luxuries and more interested in justice? What if I believed every dollar spent is vital, a potential soldier in the war on inequality?

Jen Hatmaker

#4. The mirror does not flatter, it faithfully shows whatever looks into it; namely, the face we never show to the world because we cover it with the persona, the mask of the actor.

C. G. Jung

#5. Though we eat little flesh and drink no wine,
Yet let's be merry; we'll have tea and toast;
Custards for supper, and an endless host
Of syllabubs and jellies and mincepies,
And other such ladylike luxuries.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#6. Complaining about life's little miseries was one of the few conversational luxuries people were allowed, and at the moment, Kaylin couldn't put herself behind complaint.

Michelle Sagara

#7. Religious patients seemed to differ little from those without a religion.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#8. The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort.

Seneca The Younger

#9. Knowledge Gives You Power.

Maxwell Maltz

#10. How easily the heart accustoms itself to comforts, and how difficult it is to tear one's self away from luxuries which have become habitual and, little by little, indispensable.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#11. The rich man dines, while the poor man pines,
And eats his heart away;
'They teach us lies,' he sternly cries,
'Would BROTHERS do as they?'
The Dream.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#12. But I think the real tension lies in the relationship between what you might call the pursuer and his quarry, whether it's the writer or the spy.

John Le Carre

#13. Do not take the advantage of all the little luxuries a house of a stranger may offer you.

Auliq Ice

#14. War is never lenient but where it is wanton; where men are compelled to fight in self-defence, they must hate and avenge. This may be bad, but it is human nature; it is the clay as it came from the hands of the Potter.

Thomas B. Macaulay

#15. Your attitude about who you are and what you have is a very little thing that makes a very big difference.

Theodore Roosevelt

#16. Women most certainly carry a more sympathetic heart in the traditional, classic sense the mother archetype. They have been given the role to carry the heart energy of the human community, whereas men carry the survival energy.

Caroline Myss

#17. There is no dangerous path for the water; there is no dangerous path for the fearless!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#18. I am proud of having done what I've done. Very proud.

J.K. Rowling

#19. When you fall in a river, you're no longer a fisherman; you're a swimmer.

Gene Hill

#20. I never bought a man who wasn't for sale.
-W.A. Clark, ascribed

Bill Dedman

#21. If you want the little luxuries of life you have to be prepared to pay for them.

Harry Harrison

#22. I remember promising myself that should I live I would prove myself deserving of life.

Terry Fox