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“Simply to have all the necessities of life and three meals a day will not bring happiness. Happiness is hidden in the unnecessary and in those impractical things that bring delight to the inner person. . . . When we lack proper time for the simple pleasures of life, for the enjoyment of eating, drinking, playing, creating, visiting friends, and watching children at play, then we have missed the purpose of life. Not on bread alone do we live but on all these human and heart-hungry luxuries.”

“A life alert to simple pleasures, with perception cultivated and attuned to beauty, and a large capacity for friendship can serve us well come what may.”

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Book:Epicurean Simplicity

Source: Epicurean Simplicity

“As I've grown older, the simple pleasure of sitting on the couch with someone you love and watching a documentary is about as good as it gets for me.”

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Author:Paul Wesley

“I place flowers in the very first rank of simple pleasures; and I have no very good opinion of the hard worldly people who take no delight in them.”

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Book:The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Related in a Selection from Her Letters to Her Friends

Source: The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Related in a Selection from Her Letters to Her Friends

“Our days weave together the simple pleasures of daily life, which we should never take for granted, and the higher pleasures of Art and Thought which we may now taste as we please, with none to forbid or criticise.”

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Book:Possession: A Romance

Source: Possession: A Romance

“Tea is the only simple pleasure left to us.”

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Book:Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)

“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.”

“Free men must live simple lives and have simple pleasures.”

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Author:William Morris

“In this age of getting what you want and getting it now, the simple pleasure of browsing is often forgotten.”

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Author:Tom Hodgkinson

“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.”

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Author:Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.”