Quotes About Simple Joys

#1. The gifts we treasure most over the years are often small and simple. In easy times and tough times, what seems to matter most is the way we show those nearest us that we've been listening to their needs, to their joys, and to their challenges.

Fred Rogers

#2. If I wasted my time worrying, I would be deprived of all the simple joys of life!

Jen Selinsky

#3. Simple joys are the great ones. Pleasure is not complicated.

Ethan Hawke

#4. Joys come from simple and natural things: mists over meadows, sunlight on leaves, the path of the moon over water.

Sigurd F. Olson

#5. There is no pleasure pure and simple, and some care always
comes to mar our joys.

Ovid

#6. Your calling multiplies you

Sunday Adelaja

#7. Up to one's last breath, one may retain the simple joys of childhood, the poetic ecstasies of the young person, the enthusiasms of maturity. Right to the end, one may intoxicate one's spirit with flowers, with beauty and with smiles.

Eliphas Levi

#8. Whatever the Dark One wants, I oppose, so hear this and know it true. Before I let the Dark One have you, I will destroy you myself.

Robert Jordan

#9. A good leader needs to know how to follow.

Casey Affleck

#10. A sailor's joys are as simple as a child's.

Bernard Moitessier

#11. Mamma was the first person who had given her the pleasure of feeling that her peasant existence, with its simple joys and sorrows, might offer some interest, might be a source of grief or pleasure to some one other than herself. My

Marcel Proust

#12. We have a tendency to obscure the forest of simple joys with the trees of problems.

Christiane Collange

#13. Ah! Summer is here. Celebrate the lights, dance with the blooming flowers, swim with the heart touching waves, sing under the dreamy starlight, dance with the winds, fall in love with the blue sky and the simple joys of life.

Debasish Mridha

#14. Sometimes, the simple things are more fun and meaningful than all the banquets in the world ...

E.A. Bucchianeri

#15. Daydreaming is its own reward.

Marty Rubin

#16. There's still the part of me that wants to leap at every opportunity, but now there's the other side that says, 'Let's just wait a minute and see what happens.' That's intuition, and it comes with age and experience.

Kim Cattrall

#17. The essence of life is not in the great victories and grand failures, but in the simple joys.

Jonathan Lockwood Huie

#18. The initial wealth of a group and its time of arrival are obviously important, as many wealthy "old families " show, but the Jews arrived late and penniless in the nineteenth century and are now more affluent than any other ethnic group.

Thomas Sowell

#19. And Pythagoras is reported to have been a disciple of Sonches the Egyptian arch-prophet; and Plato, of Sechnuphis of Heliopolis; and Eudoxus, of Cnidius of Konuphis, who was also an Egyptian.
[Stromata, 1.15]

Clement Of Alexandria

#20. When I first started playing music in 1955, there was just a small body of people that knew it. It was a very esoteric type of thing.

Steve Lacy

#21. There are two very important things you need to realize from this verse of Scripture. The first one is: Whatever we must receive from God must come as an act of faith, because God is a Faith-God.

Chris Oyakhilome

#22. Life is not just one thing; life is a lot of things, and I think I've been lucky to do that.

Ally Walker

#23. It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them

Paulo Coelho

#24. She never wanted an extravagant life-- only one filled with simple joys like children, family, friendship, good books, funny jokes, and a pint of mint chocolate chip ice cream.

S.A. Huchton

#25. Do few things but do them well, simple joys are holy.

Francis Of Assisi

#26. It takes bravery to care for someone - no matter who he is or what made him, whether he is weak or walking or jumping out of windows. The risk involved is enormous.

Deb Olin Unferth

#27. We forget that the sweetest joys are found in the simplest acts: hugs, laughter, quiet observation, basic movements, holding hands, pleasant music, shared stories, a listening ear, an unhurried visit, and selfless service. It is sad we forget a truth so elementary.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#28. Holistic Healthcare remains a very big attraction. Best of the doctors are moving towards homeopathy. There's a mood for Holistic Healthcare. There's a mood to go toward stress free life from a stressful life.

Narendra Modi

#29. Only in our darkest hour do we find the light. Humans are destructive by nature. The world is lacking balance. Terrors are beginning to triumph over the simple joys. Stand back and watch, because you're going to be here when we fall.

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

#30. We only need to open our eyes to see the gifts that abound all around us. These are the simple joys in life.

Genevieve Gerard

#31. Life would continue, with joys and sorrows, triumphs and tragedies rising and falling like the waves of the sea. It was up to him to respond wisely, enjoy simple pleasures unshaken by the inevitable endless turmoil of the world.

Devdutt Pattanaik

#32. Our life before moving to Washington was filled with simple joys ... Saturdays at soccer games, Sundays at grandma's house ... and a date night for Barack and me was either dinner or a movie, because as an exhausted mom, I couldn't stay awake for both.

Michelle Obama

#33. I wondered then why children played so in the river, but adults ceased to see it with the same eyes. Why couldn't we embrace such simple joys?

John Shors