Top 1200 Small Pleasures Quotes & Sayings - Page 8

Oh! one hour with God infinitely exceeds all the pleasures and delights of this lower world.

'Unknown Pleasures' is a very important record for me. It was the first LP that I recorded.

One of the pleasures of being a gardener comes from the enjoyment you get looking at other people's yards.

False pleasures come from without and are imperfect: happiness is internal and our own.

Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes; And when in act they cease, in prospect rise.

Spangling the wave with lights as vain As pleasures in the vale of pain, That dazzle as they fade.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

One of the pleasures of living in London is the opportunity to do things that are only possible in a city of its size.

There are more stars than there are people. Billions, Alan had said, and millions of them might have planets just as good as ours. Ever since I can remember, I’ve felt too big. But now I felt small. Too small. Too small to count. Every star is massive, but there are so many of them. How could anyone care about one star when there were so many spare? And what if stars were small? What if all the stars were just pixels? And earth was less than a pixel? What does that make us? And what does that make me? Not even dust. I felt tiny. For the first time in my life I felt too small.

The space that I can call mine.. is so small that my ideas have become small. I am like a caterpillar in a cocoon of paper; all around me are sketches for sculptures, small drawings that seem like moths fluttering against the windows, beating their wings to escape from this tiny space.. Every day the ideas come more reluctantly, as though they know I will starve them and stunt their growth.

The most necessary disposition to relish pleasures is to know how to be without them.

The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.

It's clear that the small business tax credit created under the Affordable Care - while well-intentioned policy - can be improved to better serve the needs of small businesses.

I'm not a big splurger of money, but my guilty pleasures do lie within BMWs. I get roped in.

Spiritual beings do not sweat life's small stuff. They also know that most of what drives us crazy in life is small stuff. The only thing that isn't small stuff is the reason you're on earth in the first place: to find that portion of the world's lost heart that only you can ransom with your love and authentic gifts and then return it, so that all of us can experience Wholeness.

It isn't the big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones.

The small perplexities of small minds eddy and boil about you. Confident from the experience that has led you out of these same dangers, you attack each problem as it appears, unafraid.

Success is how you collect your minutes. You spend millions of minutes to reach one triumph, one moment, then you spend maybe a thousand minutes enjoying it. If you were unhappy through those millions of minutes, what good is the thousand minutes of triumph? It doesn't equate... Life is made of small pleasures. Good eye contact over the breakfast table with your wife. A moment of touching a friend. Happiness is made of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. If you don't have all those zillions of tiny successes, the big ones don't mean anything.

Purely altruistic behavior is pretty much impossible because of the selfish pleasures we derive from it.

The pains and pleasures of the body, howsoever important to ourselves, are an indelicate subject of conversation

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

One of the greatest of all mental pleasures is to have our thoughts often divined: ever entered into with sympathy.

And the pleasures and rewards of the intellect are inseparable from angst, uncertainty, conflict and even despair.

Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures. [Lat., Continuis voluptatibus vicina satietas.]

Creative work is one of life's greatest pleasures, and the only one we will gladly interrupt.

Small companies need capital to invest, expand, and create jobs. And the economy needs a healthy small business community to bolster and sustain its recovery.

Cooking and baking are pleasures and I want everyone to be able to experience and share them.

The world suffers nothing from Christians but hates them because they reject its pleasures.

The sweetest pleasures soonest cloy, And its best flavour temperance gives to joy.

I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.

The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.

Real are the dreams of Gods, and smoothly pass Their pleasures in a long immortal dream.

Claiming to 'fight for small business' is often used as a political tool in Washington D.C., but it is actually the policies behind that battle cry that small firms care about.

What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?

It is not abstinence from pleasures that is best, but mastery over them without being worsted.

Dance connects us to the musicality of life and to one another. No one should be denied such basic pleasures.

I have these guilty pleasures, these failed films that don't work at all, but I'll watch them if they're on. Like 'The Game.'

I have these guilty pleasures, these failed films that don't work at all, but I'll watch them if they're on. Like 'The Game'.

The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.

It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury.

We can’t turn life into a pleasure. But we can choose such pleasures as are worthy of us and our immortal souls.

One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures.

Society seldom forgives those who have discovered the emptiness of its pleasures, and who can live independent of it and them.

Depending on where you live, cooking, sex and pooping are either 3 of life's pleasures or what kills you

The pleasures of this world are rather from God's goodness than our own merit.

The world is so constructed, that if you wish to enjoy its pleasures, you also must endure its pains.

How can you call a man free when his pleasures rule over him.

The government's Small Business Administration reports that small businesses represent 99% of all employers in the U.S. and are responsible for generating well over half of new jobs created.

Other things titillate me more keenly than the pale pleasures of marriage.

Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.

The fundamental truth of democracy is the belief that the real pleasures of life are increased by sharing them.

Studing jewelry gives you an incredible technical background. If you can work on very, very small things, then, I think, typically you find it easier to go bigger rather than the other way around. I think a lot of architects have struggled with small things. Whereas if you start small, it's easier to get bigger.

Partake of some of life's sweet pleasures. And yes, get comfortable with yourself.

I spit upon luxurious pleasures, not for their own sake, but because of the inconveniences that follow them.

If I could do my life over, I would try to cleanse at least my pleasures of self-pity.

A fine lady is a squirrel-headed thing, with small airs and small notions; about as applicable to the business of life as a pair of tweezers to the clearing of a forest.

I escaped the torture of my childhood home by reading. To this day it is still one of my greatest pleasures.

Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.

Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values.

I think in a way that's part of getting older, appreciating the simple pleasures of being in the garden.