Top 1200 Small Pleasures Quotes & Sayings - Page 9

One of my pleasures is observing people's behavior and pointing out the inconsistencies that we all sort of have at the center of our lives.

The opening for solid waste is very small [in the space ship]. It's not toilet-bowl size. And aim is critical. To be honest with you, you don't know where your asshole is pointing within a small circumference.

One of life's few really reliable pleasures: to have a family you love, and to leave them for a week.

Great things are wrought through simple and small things. Like the small flecks of gold that accumulate over time into a large treasure, our small and simple acts of kindness and service will accumulate into a life filled with love for Heavenly Father, devotion to the work of the Lord Jesus Christ, and a sense of peace and joy each time we reach out to one another.

There is a beautiful expression of this in the Chandogya Upanishad: 'There is this City of Brahman, (that is the body), and in this city there is a shrine, and in that shrine there is a small lotus, and in that lotus there is a small space, (akasa). Now what exists within that small space, that is to be sought, that is to be understood.' This is the great discovery of the Upanishads, this inner shrine, this guha, or cave of the heart, where the inner meaning of life, of all human existence, is to be found.

Pleasures take to themselves wings and fly away; true knowledge remains forever.

Sleep is perhaps the only among life's great pleasures which need not be of short duration.

Health is so necessary to all the duties, as well as pleasures of life, that the crime of squandering it is equal to the folly.

Technology, publicity and sexuality have their place in music, but they are all subordinate to the pleasures and power of true vocal talent.

Pleasures that are in themselves innocent lose their power of pleasing if they become the sole or main object of pursuit.

Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.

To become a grandparent is to enjoy one of the few pleasures in life for which the consequences have already been paid.

One of the most lasting pleasures you can experience is the feeling that comes over you when you genuinely forgive an enemy - whether he knows it or not.

We were created for meaningful work, and one of life's greatest pleasures is the satisfaction of a job well done.

Don't indulge in careless behaviour. Don't be the friend of sensual pleasures. He who meditates attentively attains abundant joy.

I prefer hanging out with my small group of friends, maybe head to the beach once in three months, pursue my hobbies, and just be happy with the small joys of life.

You who love wild passions, flee the holy austerity of my pleasures. All here breathes of God, peace and truth.

Pleasures of the mind have this advantage,--they never cloy nor wear themselves out, but increase by employment.

He who wishes to find Jesus should seek Him, not in the delights and pleasures of the world, but in mortification of the senses.

And the purpose of small talk is not to be controversial, clever or even interesting. It's simply to fill the silent void with a small gesture of common humanity. It's a spoken smile, a verbal handshake.

An excessive indulgence in the pleasures of social life constitutes the great interests of a luxuriant and opulent age.

The sea of pleasures may drown its owner and the swimmer fears to open his eyes under the water.

The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation.

Baltimore is permissiveness. The pleasures of the flesh, the table, the bottle, and the purse are tolerated with a civilized understanding.

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.

I teach a non-fiction writing class at New York University, and one of my great pleasures is deciding on the syllabus.

Small paintings can be fantastic. But you can't often get a narrative out of a small painting. In any case, museums are huge places, and you want to take up some space.

The story of gluten as it relates to the brain throws a wide net, so much more encompassing than the inflammation of a small section of the small intestine that characterizes celiac disease.

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

Good people have always been at the heart of the Virgin business, and that's largely because we have tried to keep our business small, and our management teams tight-knit. I feel that small, compact companies, are better run. That is partly because people feel more connected in small companies.

It’s not that they’re small, the fair folk. Especially not the queen of them all, Mab of the flashing eyes and the slow smile with lips that can conjure your heart under the hills for a hundred years. It’s not that they’re small. It’s that we’re so far away.

Pleasures don't last like the snow falls in the river, a moment white - then melts for ever.

When I was small, my parents came back from Tijuana, and my dad bought me a very small acoustic guitar. I loved it. I started making up my own songs right away.

I have an amazing team, and we find people who resonate with us, but sometimes our scope is still small because we are a pretty small group and we have so much work to do. We get approached a lot.

My chief study all my life has been to lighten misfortunes and multiply pleasures, as far as human nature can.

L.A. still ranks as one of my guilty pleasures, along with butter-pecan ice cream and Coldplay albums.

Food shouldn't do you any harm, obviously you don't want a bad diet, but it should be one of life's great pleasures.

Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, There's no place like home.

The pleasures of the palate deal with us like Egyptian thieves who strangle those whom they embrace.

The impermanence of the universe is manifest, inescapable. I know that, yet I am immoderately attached to this life, these pleasures, this place.

Save money on the big, boring stuff so that you have something left over for life's little pleasures.

All our pleasures and possessions are consigned to oblivion, but the legacy we leave for Christ will endure forever.

But it's hard for a man to give up all his pleasures, even when they don't pleasure him no more.

There's something so beautiful in coming on one's very inmost thoughts in another. In one way it is one of the greatest pleasures one has.

I followed all life's pleasures wherever they would lead, but someone I can treasure is all I really need.

It's true that what you find in New York is something other than America. Only small towns and small countries are self-satisfied; a real capital goes beyond its borders.

It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.

When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.

I grew up in Pennsylvania in a small town. Real small, like one high school and one movie theater. Well, there was a state college there, that was the only good thing about it.

It's in despair that you find the sharpest pleasures, particularly when you are most acutely aware of the hopelessness of your position.

A man who love only himself and his pleasures is vain, presumptuous, and wicked even from principle.

Few pleasures there are indeed without an aftertouch of pain, but that is the preservation which keeps them sweet.

Science is so incremental and so full of setbacks and small steps forward. In order to really thrive in this business, you have to be able to glean as much joy from the failure days and from the small increments as you do from the breakthroughs.

Violent pleasures which reach the soul through the body are generally of this sort-they are reliefs of pain.

Our desires cannot be, and were never meant to be, satisfied by earthly pleasures alone.

I have always been small and one of the smallest heptathletes out there. And earlier in my career, I was faced with coaches and athletes who felt I was too small to be a multi-eventer. It gives you a push to show you can do it.

Religion contracts the circle of our pleasures, but leaves it wide enough for her votaries to expatiate in.

They were bullyin' him, Hermione, 'cause he's so small!" said Hagrid. "Small?" said Hermione. "Small?" "Hermione, I couldn't leave him," said Hagrid, tears now trickling down his bruised face into his beard. "See -- he's my brother!

If you profess to be a Christian, yet find full satisfaction in worldly pleasures and pursuits, your profession is false.