Quotes About Simple Joys In Life

#1. 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

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

Jonathan Lockwood Huie

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. Nelson's Mandela own sense of himself was a very humble reading, [different] from how the world read him. And, quite often, you had the sense that he was not comfortable with all the accolades that would be.

Kumi Naidoo

#6. That is the first time I enjoy the privilege of having the upper hand with Professor Delacroix. And though I do not yet know it, it will also be the last.

Nenia Campbell

#7. Academics were not intellectuals; they were not curious, they built their stolid tents of specialized knowledge and stayed securely in them.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#8. 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

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

Paulo Coelho

#10. America doesn't have health insurance.

Joe Biden

#11. Even before I got on 'SNL' I assumed I would do some type of sitcom; I kind of thought that was how I would start. I don't mean to sound arrogant - I just thought I would be best suited to the form.

Casey Wilson

#12. All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.

John Gunther

#13. The claw / Of the magnolia, / Drunk on its own secrets, / Asks nothing of life.

Sylvia Plath

#14. I mean, sometimes when you do a show or a campaign with a designer, you get along with them really well and you become friends. And then, sometimes, people are just a bit ... weird.

Lara Stone

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

E.A. Bucchianeri

#16. 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

#17. Before 'Gangnam Style' I was not a good attitude artist.

Psy

#18. I like thought which preserves a whiff of flesh and blood, and I prefer a thousand times an idea rising from sexual tension or nervous depression to empty abstraction.

Emil Cioran

#19. We've got to take back the ideal of justice, we've got to take back this principle of human dignity. We've got to take it back from vengeance, from hatred, we've got to say: look, we're all in this together. We are human beings.

David Kaczynski

#20. There's degradation of the environment. But the real issue is the degradation of one's inner environment.

Frederick Lenz

#21. Leaves. Hundreds, thousands, maybe millions of them, brown and yellow and red and orange, in bright piles on the concrete floor. Some were so high they almost covered the rosebushes.

Alex Flinn

#22. My music is not just about entertainment. It is about enlightenment also.

Kailash Kher

#23. Are you hitting on me?" Shocked, I shook my head. "Are you for real?"
"My momma probably thinks I'm real."
I ignored that. "While I have a stake at your throat?

Jennifer L. Armentrout

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

Jen Selinsky