CURATED COLLECTION

Finding Joy in Simple Things

The extraordinary was hiding inside the ordinary all along — it just required a slower kind of looking.

42 quotes found

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Sudden summer shower, a child's hand claps through the puddle.

—Yosa BusonPoet & Painter

Enlightenment ERA • East Asia

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The power of finding beauty in humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.

—Louisa May AlcottNovelist & Poet

Industrial Age ERA • North America

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Let your clothes be clean, your head washed, bathe often. Look at the small child holding your hand.

—Sin-leqi-unninniScholar

Ancient World ERA • MENA

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Rain, shine, or snow, I play with my ball.

—RyokanPoet

Enlightenment ERA • East Asia

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The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

—Leonardo da VinciPolymath

Renaissance ERA • Southern Europe

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The world is beautiful, and I am glad I was born.

—Jaroslav SeifertPoet & Author

Late Modern ERA • Eastern Europe

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To learn and then to practice what you have learned — is this not a joy?

—ConfuciusPhilosopher

Ancient World ERA • East Asia

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You gotta be grateful for what you got. If you're grateful, more things come.

—Tiffany HaddishScholar & Thinker

Digital Age ERA • North America

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The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy – it’s all that matters.

—Audrey HepburnActress & Humanitarian

Late Modern ERA • Western Europe

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A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.

—Roald DahlNovelist

Post-War ERA • Western Europe

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My dad said, 'Don't let anyone steal your joy, son. Ever.'

—Kwame AlexanderPoet & Author

Digital Age ERA • North America

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Forget death; seek life. Be happy, enjoy yourself, dance and play.

—Sin-leqi-unninniScholar

Ancient World ERA • MENA

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There are so many kinds of ways to feel happy.

—Keri HulmeNovelist

Late Modern ERA • Oceania

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From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere.

—Dr. SeussAuthor & Illustrator

Post-War ERA • North America

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The pleasure of a work of art is meant to be a preparation for the greater pleasure of life.

—Alain de BottonAuthor & Philosopher

Digital Age ERA • Western Europe

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To me every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle.

—Walt WhitmanPoet & Essayist

Industrial Age ERA • North America

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Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

—Hans Christian AndersenAuthor & Poet

Industrial Age ERA • Nordic

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Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.

—Oprah WinfreyAuthor & Thinker

Contemporary ERA • North America

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Let's face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake does a lot for a lot of people.

—Audrey HepburnActress & Humanitarian

Post-War ERA • Western Europe

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I prefer movies. I prefer cats. I prefer the oaks along the Warta.

—Wisława SzymborskaPoet

Late Modern ERA • Eastern Europe

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