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Quotes About Moments

That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
~ Agnes Martin
Moments of pure happiness...come upon you unexpectedly. Don't be too preoccupied to experience them.
~ Jessica Lange
Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance
~ Honore de Balzac
The most beautiful moments in life are moments when you are expressing your joy, not when you are seeking it.
~ Sadhguru
There are only moments of happiness - from contentment to ecstacy.
~ Indira Gandhi
Time is given us to be happy and for no other reason [...] When we waste time, we waste happiness.
~ L. Frank Baum
Often we pass beside happiness without seeing it, without looking at it, or even if we have seen and looked at it, without recognizing it.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Hoping to live days of greater happiness, I forget that days of less happiness are passing by.
~ Elizabeth Bishop
Even the darkest moments of the liturgy are filled with joy, and Ash Wednesday, the beginning of the lenten fast, is a day of happiness, a Christian feast.
~ Thomas Merton
Grab it while you can — grab every scrap of happiness while you can
~ Noel Coward
The trick is to find happiness in the brief gaps between disasters.
~ Christopher Paolini
The days that make us happy make us wise
~ John Masefield
People always think that happiness is a faraway thing … something complicated and hard to get. Yet, what little things can make it up.
~ Betty Smith
This idea of perpetual happiness is crazy and overrated, because those dark moments fuel you for the next bright moments; each one helps you appreciate the other.
~ Brad Pitt
Enjoy in happiness the pleasures which each hour brings with it.
~ Horace
Happiness comes in moments, & then it's gone until the next time. Could be years. But sadness settles it.
~ Dennis Lehane
I think there are different kinds of happiness. We know when we're happy a lot of the time, but then there are those moments that have more of an afterglow, when the happiness has more depth.
~ Ariel Gore
Since eternity means happiness for you, what does it matter if some of these passing moments are unpleasant?
~ Pio of Pietrelcina
To fill the hour??that is happiness.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happiness lies in moments, and while you have it you're not even aware, only afterwards do you know you were happy.
~ Luise Rainer
I wanted to be the photographer of happiness.
~ Malick Sidibe
I don't have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness - it's right in front of me if I'm paying attention and practicing gratitude.
~ Brene Brown
Purity is something that can be consciously developed. Expect to have impure moments, thoughts, and ideas. One day they will go away, and then there will be happiness.
~ Frederick Lenz
The happy have whole days, and those they choose. The unhappy have but hours, and those they lose.
~ Colley Cibber