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• Nothing in or of this world measures up to the simple pleasure of experiencing the presence of God.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Simple, World, Pleasure

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• Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need - a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Jerome K. Jerome (2014). “Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.44, Diderot Publishing

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• I never went to a John Wayne movie to find a philosophy to live by or to absorb a profound message. I went for the simple pleasure of spending a couple of hours seeing the bad guys lose.

  Mike Royko

  Movie, Couple, Philosophy

  Mike Royko, Lois Wille (2000). “One More Time: The Best of Mike Royko”, p.120, University of Chicago Press

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• i love playing and chatting with children...feeding and putting them to bed with a little story, and being away from the family has troubled me throughout my...life. i like relaxing at the house, reading quietly, taking in the sweet smell that comes from the pots, sitting around a table with the family and taking out my wife and children. when you can no longer enjoy these simple pleasures something valuable is taken away from your life and you feel it in your daily work.

  Nelson Mandela

  Sweet, Children, Taken

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• It is part of the photographer's job to see more intensely than most people do. He must have and keep in him something of the receptiveness of a child who looks at the world for the first time or of the traveler who enters a strange country We are most of us too busy, too worried, too intent on proving ourselves right, too obsessed with ideas to stand and stare Very rarely are we able to free our minds of thoughts and emotions and just see for the simple pleasure of seeing. And so long as we fail to do this, so long will the essence of things be hidden from us.

  Bill Brandt

  Country, Jobs, Children

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• In this job, there are some simple pleasures that really help you cope. One is books, I mean, books are a great escape. Books are a way to get your mind on something else.

  George W. Bush

  Jobs, Book, Reading

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• Food has always been at the center of community bonding, of family life, and simple pleasure, but it is becoming more and more an obsession, a source of pain.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Pain, Simple, Community

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

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• I love playing and chatting with children...feed ing and putting them to bed with a little story, and being away from the family has troubled me throughout my...life.

  Nelson Mandela

  Children, Bed, Stories

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• Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.

  Margaret Drabble

  Wisdom, Simple, Misery

  1963 A Summer Birdcage, ch.7.

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• I've had a pretty good lesson in human nature. It's more important to try to surround yourself with people who can give you a little happiness, because you only pass through this life once, Jack. You don't come back for an encore.

  Elvis Presley

  Simple, People, Giving

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• Well, everybody faces the fact there really aren't many records stores around to just go and browse. Maybe browse online, yet that tactile feel of flipping through a stack of vinyl remains one of life's simple pleasures.

  Billy Gibbons

  Simple, Records, Faces

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• Love, sex, food, friendship, art, play, beauty and the simple pleasure of a cup of tea are all well and good, but never forget that God/the universe is determined to kill you by whatever means necessary.

  Chuck Lorre

  Art, Sex, Mean

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• Everyone needs a spiritual guide: a minister, rabbi, counselor, wise friend, or therapist. My own wise friend is my dog. He has deep knowledge to impart. He makes friends easily and doesn't hold a grudge. He enjoys simple pleasures and takes each day as it comes. Like a true Zen master he eats when he is hungry and sleeps when he is tired. He's not hung up about sex. Best of all, he befriends me with an unconditional love that human beings would do well to imitate.

  Gary A. Kowalski

  Wise, Spiritual, Dog

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• Now, I was a fan of the simple pleasures in life: grilled cheese sandwiches without black flecks on the crust, jeans that didn't pinch the better parts of me, an inch of vodka, ten to twelve hours of sleep. - Cole St Clair, Forever.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Sleep, Simple, Cheese Sandwiches

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Forever”, p.25, Scholastic Inc.

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• To the Technocrats: Have mercy on us. Relax a bit, take time out for simple pleasures. For example, the luxuries of electricity, indoor plumbing, central heating, instant electronic communication and such, have taught me to relearn and enjoy the basic human satisfactions of dipping water from a cold clear mountain stream; of building a wood fire in a cast-iron stove; of using long winter nights for making music, making things, making love; of writing long letters, in longhand with a fountain pen, to the few people on this earth I truly care about.

  Edward Abbey

  Communication, Writing, Winter

  Edward Abbey (2006). “Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast”

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• Eve tasted the apple in the Garden of Eden in order to slake that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasure of picking flowers and talking to Adam could not satisfy.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Flower, Simple, Garden

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• Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Selfish, Simple

  Tao-te Ching ch. 19 (translation byWing-Tsit Chan)

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• Poetry reveals to us the loveliness of nature, brings back the freshness of youthful feelings, reviews the relish of simple pleasures, keeps unquenched the enthusiasm which warmed the springtime of our being, refines youthful love, strengthens our interest in human mature, by vivid delineations of its tenderest and softest feelings, and through the brightness of its prophetic visions, helps faith to lay hold on the future life.

  William Ellery Channing

  Love, Simple, Feelings

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• Tea is the only simple pleasure left to us.

  Oscar Wilde

  Simple, Tea, Pleasure

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.888, Delphi Classics

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• The family should be a closely knit group. The home should be a self-contained shelter of security; a kind of school where life's basic lessons are taught; and a kind of church where God is honored; a place where wholesome recreation and simple pleasures are enjoyed.

  Billy Graham

  Home, School, Parenting

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• Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Life, Friendship

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.28, St. Martin's Press

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• We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Funny, Positive

  Lady Windermere's Fan act 3 (1892)

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• He tells me I look as if I could use a hugand i laugh at him and he ignores me and steps forward and puts his arms around me and hugs me. I warm at the simple pleasure of human contact and for the first time in a long time i actually feel good." (James Frey, pg.38)

  James Frey

  Simple, Long, Laughing

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• Monday is great if I can spend it in bed. I'm a man of simple pleasures, really.

  Arthur Darvill

  Monday, Men, Simple

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Why do we have to grow up? I know more adults who have the children's approach to life. They're people who don't give a hang what the Joneses do. You see them at Disneyland every time you go there. They are not afraid to be delighted with simple pleasures, and they have a degree of contentment with what life has brought - sometimes it isn't much, either.

  Walt Disney

  Motivational, Children, Growing Up

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