Top 1200 Simple Pleasures Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

What a simple thing death is, just as simple as the falling of an autumn leaf.

Men cannot labor on always. They must have intervals of relaxation. They cannot sleep through these intervals. What are they to do? Why, if they do not work or sleep, they must have recreation. And if they have not recreation from healthful sources, they will be very likely to take it from the poisoned fountains of intemperance. Or, if they have pleasures, which, though innocent, are forbidden by the maxims of public morality, their very pleasures are liable to become poisoned fountains.

It is easy to be accurate if you have the freedom to be complicated, and it is very easy to be simple if you have the freedom to shade the truth. What's hard is to be simple and very accurate, and that takes work to figure out what are the simple truths that are going to sustain your case.

No endeavor that is worthwhile is simple in prospect; if it is right, it will be simple in retrospect.

Simple colours can affect the intimate feelings with all the more force because they are simple.

i love playing and chatting with children...feeding and putting them to bed with a little story, and being away from the family has troubled me throughout my...life. i like relaxing at the house, reading quietly, taking in the sweet smell that comes from the pots, sitting around a table with the family and taking out my wife and children. when you can no longer enjoy these simple pleasures something valuable is taken away from your life and you feel it in your daily work.

But I think beautiful is simple and elegant, like a ballad with simple harmony.

The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth. The great philosophers have always been able to clear away the complexities and see simple distinctions - simple once they are stated, vastly difficult before. If we are to follow them we too must be childishly simple in our questions - and maturely wise in our replies.

I'm a simple girl. I just like the simple things in life.

It's all very simple. But maybe because it's so simple, it's also hard.

Let me tell you something: I'm a simple person who lives a simple life.

What is Zen? Simple, simple, so simple. Infinite gratitude toward all things past; infinite service to all things present; infinite responsibility to all things future.

To me, cricket is a simple game. Keep it simple and just go out and play.

I think the simple message of that song is what attracted me to 'Every Day.' It's one of those simple yet profound lyrics.

If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.

Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.

Success lies in a masterful consistency around a few fundamentals. It really is simple. Not easy. But simple.

Simple questions--and simple answers--were what we needed in life. That was what Mma Ramotswe believed. Yes.

Too many escape into complexity these days. For it is an escape for persons to cry, when this question of the equality of peoples is raised in India or in our own South, 'Ah, but the situation is not so simple.' ... no great stride forward is ever made for the individual or for the human race unless the complex situation is reduced to one simple question and its simple answer.

Your Heavenly body is going to be an awful lot like it is now, only better. And if you enjoy its pleasures now, think how marvelous they're going to be when your body is supernatural, really super, with more power and more beauty and more grace and greater thrills and more marvelous exciting experiences and love than ever!-All the pleasures of this life and Heaven too, and their continuation on the other side!

Never forget this simple truism: Forecasting is marketing, plain and simple.

In war everything is simple, but it's the simple things that are difficult.

The mind being, as I have declared, furnished with a great number of the simple ideas conveyed in by the senses, as they are found in exterior things, or by reflection on its own operations, take notice, also, that a certain number of these simple ideas go constantly together... which, by inadvertency, we apt afterward to talk of and condier as one simple idea.

Arriving at a simple piece of music is a very difficult balance because, in being simple, you could easily be banal, so maybe it's more difficult to write a simple piece of music than a 12-tone piece where no one understands exactly what it is about.

Too many commercials. Too many lies. Too many celebrities. I don't recognize. Too many brand names. Too many magazines. I got so much sensation, I can't feel a thing. Simple. Living. Got to get to simple - living. Simple living. Simple... simply living.

I have lived large parts of my life in wonderful circumstances that I utterly failed to appreciate. Reasons to be happy were everywhere, but somehow I didn't connect with them. It was as though I was eating but couldn't taste the food. Finally, I've learned to celebrate the good while it's happening. I feel gratitude and praise today for what are sometimes such simple pleasures. I have learned that happiness is not determined by circumstances. Happiness is not what happens when everything goes the way you think it should go; happiness is what happens when you decide to be happy.

Basically, country is my kind of music - the simple melody, the simple lyrics.

Reality seems so simple. We just open our eyes and there it is. But that doesn't mean it is simple.

I still dream about doing something simple, very simple and universal.

It's very satisfying to take a problem we thought difficult and find a simple solution. The best solutions are always simple.

I like the simple things. I don't know why. I'm that way. I came from a simple place.

Sometimes I like to be more simple - simple colours, to be completely empty.

Football isn't nuclear physics, but it's not so simple that you can make it simple. It takes some explaining to get it across.

The solutions all are simple - after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.

It does seem simple, doesn't it?' she said, with a final bitter attempt at flippancy, 'when you want to kill a chicken...you take hold of it...then you wring its neck...it's only the chicken who does not find it quite so simple. Now you hold a knife at my throat, and a hostage for my obedience...You find it simple...I don't

The trouble with simple living is that, though it can be joyful, rich, and creative, it isn't simple.

The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.

I'm a simple man with very simple tastes and low standards.

I am a simple person; I come from a very simple home. We believe in enjoying life and what we have.

Though a simple book can be written on selected topics, the central doctrines of economics are not simple and cannot be made so.

I am a simple girl from a simple background, and I think fans have appreciated my authenticity. What you see is definitely what you get with me.

There's an applied style of being minimal and simple, and then there's real simplicity. This looks simple, because it really is.

It is not quite right to describe One Taste as a "consciousness" or an "awareness," because that's a little too heady, too cognitive. It's more like the simple Feeling of Being. You already feel this simple Feeling of Being: it is the simple, present feeling of existence.

I just like simplicity. I like simple songs, I like simple chords, simple vocals, simple lead guitar. I just like simplicity. That's just the way I like it.

The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth.... He whose desires are drawn toward knowledge in every form will be absorbed in the pleasures of the soul, and will hardly feel bodily pleasures I mean, if he be a true philosopher and not a sham one ... Then how can he who has the magnificence of mind and is the spectator of all times and all existence, think much of human life He cannot. Or can such a one account death fearful No indeed.

Football is a simple game. It's just very hard to play it simple.

My father was a simple man; my mother was a simple woman; you see the result standing in front of you, a simpleton.

Let me give you a few simple rules for learning to draw. First, see of what shape the whole thing is. Next, put in the line that marks the movement of the whole. Don't have more than one movement in a figure; you can't patch parts together. Simple lines; then simple values. Establish the fact of the whole. Is it square, oblong, cube, or what is it?

If our brains were simple enough for us to understand them, we'd be so simple that we couldn't.

Simple can be harder than complex. You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.

I let Brel into my world. What I like about him is the simplicity of his language. It's not so simple to be simple.

Communication is something so simple and difficult that we can never put it in simple words.

Prayer is simple, as simple as a child making known its wants to it parents.

In Shakespeare, keep it simple. Don't over-inflect. The speech needs to be naturalistic and simple and accessible as much as possible.

So that’s our approach. Very simple, and we’re really shooting for Museum of Modern Art quality. The way we’re running the company, the product design, the advertising, it all comes down to this: Let’s make it simple. Really simple.” Apple’s design mantra would remain the one featured on its first brochure: “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

In all places where there is a Summer and a Winter, and where your Gardens of pleasure are sometimes clothed with their verdant garments, and bespangled with variety of Flowers, and at other times wholly dismantled of all these; here to recompense the loss of past pleasures, and to buoy up their hopes of another Spring, many have placed in their Gardens, Statues, and Figures of several Animals, and great variety of other curious pieces of Workmanship, that their walks might be pleasant at any time in those places of never dying pleasures.

My meditation is simple. It does not require any complex practices. It is simple. It is singing. It is dancing. It is sitting silently

Sure, it's simple, writing for kids... Just as simple as bringing them up.

Love is so simple. [Fr., C'est tellement simple, l'amour.]