Solitude sharpens awareness of small pleasures otherwise…

“...[His] past had now risen, only the pleasures of it seeming to have lost their quality. Night and day, without interruption save of brief…

— George Eliot Middlemarch

“The small pleasures often hold the power to transform our day and infuse them with cheerful radiance.”

— Ramona I

Maybe happiness didn't have to be about the big, sweeping circumstances, about having everything in your life in place. Maybe it was about stringing…

— Ritu Ghatourey

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr

“I am a man without many pleasures in life, a man whose few pleasures are small, but a man whose small pleasures are very…

— Amanda Filipacchi

“content with small pleasures and yet never really satisfied!”

— Hermann Hesse

Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you…

— Norman Lear

Sometimes the small pleasures in life are the sweetest.

— Karen Marie Moning

“for what is life, a good life, but the accumulation of small pleasures?”

— J. Maarten Troost

Subtly, in the little ways, joy has been leaking out of our lives. The small pleasures of the ordinary day seem almost contemptible, and…

— Barbara Holland

Think big thoughts, but realize small pleasures.

— Anonymous

As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another

— Tim Tebow

“Knowledge sharpens your wits.”

— Janie Chang

Iron sharpens iron; scholar, the scholar.

— William Drummond

That which is painful sharpens one's love.

— Andrew Davidson