CURATED COLLECTION

Finding Joy in Simple Things

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

93 quotes found

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First winter rain, the world and I are young.

—Matsuo BashoPoet

Renaissance ERA • East Asia

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A good book doesn't just entertain; it reads you, revealing truths you already held.

—Juan VilloroNovelist, Journalist & Essayist

Contemporary ERA • Latin America

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A poem breathes, a quiet force, transforming air into resonant presence, pure being.

—Coral BrachoPoet

Late Modern ERA • Latin America

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Imagination is nothing but the memory of our sensations and experiences.

—Giambattista VicoPhilosopher

Enlightenment ERA • Southern Europe

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The spring sea rises and falls all day, rising and falling.

—Yosa BusonPoet & Painter

Enlightenment ERA • East Asia

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I can hear you making small holes in the silence, rain.

—Hone TuwharePoet

Post-War ERA • Oceania

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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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The sun is new each day.

—HeraclitusPhilosopher

Ancient World ERA • Southern Europe

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In the silence of the village, I hear the universe breathing.

—Namdeo Dhondo MahanorPoet

Contemporary ERA • South Asia

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Writing is the only thing that when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.

—Gloria SteinemFeminist, Activist & Journalist

Digital Age ERA • North America

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I desire that my eyes may always keep the candid innocence of children.

—Juana de IbarbourouPoet

Early Modern ERA • Latin America

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A book is a silent teacher, a loyal companion, a friend without flattery.

—Al-JahizWriter & Intellectual

Medieval ERA • MENA

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Leisure is the mother of philosophy.

—Thomas HobbesPhilosopher

Renaissance ERA • Western Europe

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To live is like loving: surrender body and soul, without fear.

—Lya LuftNovelist & Poet

Late Modern ERA • Latin America

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The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside.

—Anne FrankScholar & Thinker

Early Modern ERA • Western Europe

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Poetry is the tremor of what is sensed, not always named, a delicate vibration.

—Coral BrachoPoet

Late Modern ERA • Latin America

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Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.

—Hans Christian AndersenAuthor & Poet

Industrial Age ERA • Nordic

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I only have to close my eyes and I am back there.

—ColetteNovelist

Early Modern ERA • Western 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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The beauty of the world is almost the only way by which we can allow God to penetrate us.

—Simone WeilPhilosopher, Mystic & Activist

Early Modern ERA • Western Europe

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