Explores and appreciates the small pleasures found in everyday life.
So often we exhaust ourselves and the planet in a search for very large pleasures,while all around us lies a wealth of small pleasures,which if only we paid more attention could bring us solace and joy at little cost and effort.
This is a book to guide us to the best of life's small pleasures: the distinctive delight of holding a child's hand,having a warm bath or the joy of the evening sky. It is an intriguing,evocative mix of small pleasures to heighten the senses and return us to the world with new-found excitement and enthusiasm.
Small pleasures are points of access to the great themes of our lives. Every chapter puts one such moment of enjoyment under a magnifying glass to find out what's really going on and why it touches,moves and makes us smile.
Publisher: The School of Life PressISBN: 9781915087034Number of pages: 208Dimensions: 198 x 129 mm
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'Small Pleasures is a book I read before bed and it helps cultivate appreciation and a generally happier life in noticing the little things. I would recommend it to all.'
'Such a lovely and unusual book summing up in a simple and unpretentious way the joys of things like driving late at night,a beloved's wrist,swimming in the sea... A book to dip into and delight in.'
The School of Life
Drawing from literature,philosophy,psychology,history and art,The School of Life is a secular organisation that publishes books in the areas of self-knowledge,relationships,sociability,work,leisure and culture.
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