We're all familiar with the idea that sometimes it's the little things that mean the most. One bad day can turn into something beautiful the second a stranger pays you a compliment. Or maybe, your mother's home-cooked meal was all you needed to conclude a stressful day of classes and exams. Below is a list of 25 things you can consider to be life's simplest pleasures...they may appear irrelevant-unnecessary amongst the rest of your responsibilities in life. Rather, they embody what it means to step back and appreciate that you are living.

1. Hot showers after running in the rain
2. Putting on sweatpants after a long day
3. The smell of new journals
4. The candle aisle in Home Goods
5. Night drives
6. A heated car in the winter
7. Driving with the windows down
8. Hot chocolate in front of the fireplace
9. Ben & Jerry’s on a night in
10. Freshly baked bread
11. The smell of fall
12. The sound of nature at night
13. Laughing so much your cheeks hurt
14. Solo dance parties
15. Silence
16. Chocolate chip cookies right out of the oven
17. Slow music before falling asleep
18. Unexpected shooting stars
19. Open fields
20. The smell of sunscreen embedded into your summer clothes
21. Songs connected to memories
22. General admission concerts
23. Oversized sweaters
24. Beautiful poetry
25. Long walks