Quotes About The Simple Pleasures In Life

#1. They tended towards the simple pleasures in life: drinking, whoring and fighting, preferably all three at once.

Ilona Andrews

#2. Now, I was a fan of the simple pleasures in life: grilled cheese sandwiches without black flecks on the crust, jeans that didn't pinch the better parts of me, an inch of vodka, ten to twelve hours of sleep. - Cole St Clair, Forever.

Maggie Stiefvater

#3. Today, I choose awareness. I choose to be aware of the beauty of life and living. I choose to be aware of the simple pleasures in life. I choose awareness of joy, awareness of peace, and awareness of love.

Iyanla Vanzant

#4. Before the scientific rationalism took hold of our minds and before we became succumbed to a materialistic worldview, the Western philosophy was holistic and relational, and even now there are many scientists in the West seeing things totally interconnected.

Satish Kumar

#5. The family should be a closely knit group. The home should be a self-contained shelter of security; a kind of school where life's basic lessons are taught; and a kind of church where God is honored; a place where wholesome recreation and simple pleasures are enjoyed.

Billy Graham

#6. A life alert to simple pleasures, with perception cultivated and attuned to beauty, and a large capacity for friendship can serve us well come what may ...

Stephanie Mills

#7. One of the simple but genuine pleasures in life is getting up in the morning and hurrying to a mousetrap you set the night before.

Kin Hubbard

#8. I love eye shadows that are shimmery and playing with colors. There's just more you can do with your eyes.

Carrie Underwood

#9. Vanity might be a "sin" according to some lights, but he thought in measured doses it was one of life's allowable simple pleasures. It helped everyone get through their days.

G.M. Malliet

#10. To be contemporary is to rise through the stack of the past, like the fire through the mountain. Only a heat so deeply and intelligently born can carry a new idea into the air.

Mary Oliver

#11. Religion is nothing more than a useless and sometimes dangerous, evolutionary accident. Religious behavior may be a misfiring, an unfortunate byproduct of an underlying psychological propensity which in other circumstances is, or once was, useful.

Richard Dawkins

#12. If nothing worse than Ale happens to us, we are well off.

Charles Dickens

#13. Well, everybody faces the fact there really aren't many records stores around to just go and browse. Maybe browse online, yet that tactile feel of flipping through a stack of vinyl remains one of life's simple pleasures.

Billy Gibbons

#14. Read to rediscover.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#15. You live your entire life trapped in a sack of meat, unable to enjoy simple pleasures

Rick Riordan

#16. The greatest victory is the conquest soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#17. He gazed at me with kindness and pity. "To remain silent in the face of evil is itself a form of evil." I turned

Sue Monk Kidd

#18. The reciprocal civility of authors is one of the most risible scenes in the farce of life.

Samuel Johnson

#19. 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

#20. The key to finding happiness in this life is realizing that the only way to overcome is to transcend; to find happiness in the simple pleasures, to master the art of just being.

Brianna Wiest

#21. Simple things, simple pleasures, cutting and splitting wood, a love of the country they wanted to see more of, memories of softball fields and a girl named Amanda. There are such women as Theresa "Sam" Fitzgerald who love their men. Are content with their lives together.

James Brady

#22. Life's pleasures were so simple, really. It was all a matter of appreciating what you had - and knowing that things could always be worse.

Meg Rosoff

#23. Like cats and ice cream, showers were among life's simple, uncomplicated pleasures.

Mary Jo Putney

#24. If I have done anything, even a little, to help small children enjoy honest, simple pleasures, I have done a bit of good.

Beatrix Potter

#25. I drank, sucking the blood out of the holes, experiencing for the first time since infancy the special pleasure of sucking nourishment, the body focused with the mind upon one vital source.

Anne Rice

#26. If you don't love the sea, the sun, all the simple pleasures, what sort of life are you going to have?

Marty Rubin

#27. Our days weave together the simple pleasures of daily life, which we should never take for granted, and the higher pleasures of Art and Thought which we may now taste as we please, with none to forbid or criticise.

A.S. Byatt

#28. Even though I don't have a lot of spare time, what I do have I'm very protective of, and so I make sure to have a normal life and to remember that, while it's important to keep in mind these conflicts are ongoing, it's also important to enjoy simple pleasures, too.

Clarissa Ward

#29. If anyone does not have three minutes in his life to make an omelette, then life is not worth living.

Raymond Blanc

#30. It was clear to me that I was never going to be the same kind of player I had been. It was time to quit.

Jerry West

#31. They could make profitable use of his ample winnings and see the world. Were he not on tour for most of the year, they could finally enjoy a home life - the simple pleasures of coffee and Daily Telegraphs, clean windows and daffodils, cabernet and Newsnight.

Lionel Shriver

#32. I never in my life argued with a piece of cake or a bowl of ice cream.

Ray Bradbury

#33. We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle - even if he can afford more.

Masaru Ibuka

#34. Life brings simple pleasures to us every day. It is up to us to make them wonderful memories.

Cathy Allen

#35. The only science that gives purpose to every other science is the science of religion - the science of our happy relationship with, and our providential dependence on God and our neighbor.

Solanus Casey

#36. Simple Pleasures
Life is all about the simple pleasures
so I passed on the multilingual GPS option
on the my Bentley Continental GTZ Zagato
and felt the better man for it.

Beryl Dov

#37. I've owned a lot of dogs in my life - Marcela, Rusty, Petey Pup, Precious, Rosy and Ava. Each were in love with life's simple pleasures, but being people in dog suits, as they seem to be, they each had a defined personality!

Bob Peterson

#38. All I claimed was that when a drastic change occurs, it occurs in a relatively small and isolated population.

Ernst Mayr

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

E.A. Bucchianeri

#40. Mmm ... she's doomed! You're doomed!! They're all doomed! Notice I didn't specify what kind of doom, so no matter what happens, I predicted it. How very WISE of me.

Christopher Paolini

#41. The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

#42. The Arab view that someone should bomb Iran and stop it from developing nuclear weapons is familiar to anyone who meets privately with Arab leaders, especially in the Gulf.

Elliott Abrams