Top 1200 Small Pleasures Quotes & Sayings - Page 11

Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.

Even in heavenly pleasures he finds no satisfaction, the disciple who is fully awakened delights only in the destruction of all desires.

Cooking, decorating, diet/self-help and gardening books are guilty pleasures and useful time fillers.

It is important that the United States remain a two-party system. I'm a fellow who likes small parties and the Republican Party can't be too small to suit me.

According to Eshin's Essentials of Salvation, the Ten Pleasures are but a drop in the ocean when compared to the joys of the Pure Land.

All the other pleasures of life seem to wear out, but the pleasure of helping others in distress never does.

And y'know what they decided the number one threat was? The destructive and disruptive capability of a small group. That's what they're worried about most... they're terrified of a small group with a committed goal.

Fundamentalist Christianity appeals to pre-civilized, prudish tribal people who are not ready for urban feudal pleasures.

I begin where most people end, with a full conviction of the emptiness of all sorts of ambition, and the unsatisfactory nature of all human pleasures.

Every small business will give you an entrepreneurial way of looking at things. I guarantee you that for every plant that closes, if you gave it to one small-business person in that community, he or she would find a way to make it work. The small-business attitude is you always find a way to make it work.

The reality is, for small businesses, there really aren't HR systems. Small businesses are rolling their own.

Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none.

Don't give up! I believe in you all. A person's a person, no matter how small! And you very small persons will not have to die If you make yourselves heard! So come on, now, and TRY!

As far as pleasures, you've got to have limits. You shouldn't have too much of good things, so you'll always have a desire for more and you won't get bored.

Without hope of reward Provide help to others. Bear suffering alone, And share your pleasures with beggars.

Follow not after the vain, understand the ills of sense pleasures. One who is vigilant and meditative, obtains deep joy.

What you have to remember about Belarus is that it's a small state - it has a population of less than 10m people - and like many small states, it has to be very careful about its relationships.

A brother with small earnings may ask,''Should I also give? My earning are already so small that my family can barely make ends meet.'' My reply is, ''Have you ever considered that the very reason your earnings remain so small may be because you spend everything on yourself? If God gave you more, you would only use it to increase your own comfort instead of looking to see who is sick or who has no work at all that you might help them.

If you eliminate smoking and gambling, you will be amazed to find that almost all an Englishman's pleasures can be, and mostly are, shared by his dog.

When you die, God and the Angels will hold you accountable for all the pleasures you were allowed in life that you denied yourself.

I grew up in a small Southern town, kind of a counterculture to a small Southern mentality.

Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.

The difference is great between one's outside "life," the things which happen to one, incidents, pains and pleasures, and one's "living."

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.

My dear girl, you must cultivate a taste for the finer things. Civilized pleasures give meaning to life.

The constant demands of the heart and the belly can allow man only an incidental indulgence in the pleasures of the eye and the understanding.

Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.

Take all the pleasures of all the spheres, And multiply each through endless years,- One minute of heaven is worth them all.

One of the pleasures of looking at the world through mathematical eyes is that you can see certain patterns that would otherwise be hidden.

And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.

Fortune, honour, beauty, youth, Are but blossoms dying; Wanton pleasures, doting love, Are but shadows flying.

Life is short And pleasures few And holed the ship And drowned the crew But o! But o! How very blue the sea is.

Even with a small video we will always be able to do a small movie with friends and to show it to someone. You won't get the Oscar for it. But, after all, why are you writing and why are you filming?

When I'm working and I need to taste food, I use a small spoon or eat a small piece, rather than wolfing down an entire piece of cake.

The philosopher is a person who refuses no pleasures which do not produce greater sorrows, and who knows how to create new ones.

I have terrible taste in things: music, movies, TV shows. I love all the guilty pleasures: Bravo, Real Housewives.

I have no problem with thinking small. Sometimes you have to think small first in order to think big.

Do no evilness because it is a small one; do not leave a small deed undone because it is just a petty one.

The pleasures of mental agility are much overstated, inevitably - as it now appears to me - by those not exclusively dependent upon them.

When David Goyer comes to the small screen, what he's actually doing is making the small screen bigger.

We anticipate our own happiness, and eat out the heart and sweetness of worldly pleasures by delightful forethought of them.

Pleasures of worse natures Are gladly entertained, and they that shun us Practice in private sports the stews would blush at.

My love of books - not just of their tactile pleasures but of their astonishing variety - was born in a book-filled house; my father is a scholar.

I watch a lot of classic movies - my TV guilty pleasures are 'The Wonder Years' or the original 'MASH' show.

Laughing, if loud, ends with a deep sigh; and all pleasures have a sting in the tail, though they carry beauty in the face.

I would like The Discovery of Poetry to be a field guide to the natural pleasures of language - a happiness we were born to have.

One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.

It made you feel very small, very lost, and yet it was not altogether depressing, that feeling. After all, if you were small, the grimy beetle crawled on - which was just what you wanted it to do.

One of the secrets, and pleasures, of cooking is to learn to correct something if it goes awry; and one of the lessons is to grin and bear it if it cannot be fixed.

The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more. 1153a 23

How could I fail to be a lone wolf, and an uncouth hermit, as I did not share one of its aims nor understand one of its pleasures?

On the small scale, 'Ico,' I think, actually delivered a small new thing: holding a character's hand and really feeling like your job is to rescue this person, and establishing a personal connection.

If world problems feel too big to tackle, think small. Step by step. Small wins build confidence, lead the way to change.

I have this A-line figure. It starts with my face being small and increases as it goes down. Actually South Indians have this problem. Small face. Big hips.

Remember that thy heart will shed its pleasures as thine eye its tears, and both leave loathsome furrows.

Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none

Custom is the great leveller. It corrects the inequality of fortune by lessening equally the pleasures of the prince and the pains of the peasant.

Mental pleasures never cloy; unlike those of the body, they are increased by reputation, approved by reflection, and strengthened by enjoyment.

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

I've known Nicholas Parsons for a fairly long time and his geniune pleasures are in rubber tubes, metal clips