Small pleasures Quote by Darnishia Bolden

We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle - even if he can afford more.

— Masaru Ibuka

The chief secret of comfort lies in not suffering trifles to vex us, and in prudently cultivating our undergrowth of small pleasures, since very…

— Richard Sharp

“as in Heinrich Heine’s (a contemporary of Kierkegaard’s) well-known saying that one should value above everything else ‘freedom, equality and crab soup’. ‘Crab soup’…

— Slavoj Žižek

“There's this mental illness, right? It's called 'anhedonia.' It means 'without pleasure.' You can look it up, though all you really need to do…

— Vicki Pettersson

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

“Something had happened to him ove the past couple of years, something to do with being home with Aaron, sinking into the rhythm of…

— Tom Perrotta

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

— J. Maarten Troost

It may be that true happiness lies in the conviction that one has irremediably lost happiness. Then we can begin to move through life…

— Maria Luisa Bombal

Sometimes the small pleasures in life are the sweetest.

— Karen Marie Moning

Solitude sharpens awareness of small pleasures otherwise lost.

— Kevin Patterson

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

Love feels like a great misfortune, a monstrous parasite, a permanent state of emergency that ruins all small pleasures.

— Slavoj Žižek