Top 100 Quotes About Happiness Moments
#1. Nobody can be happy. You could have moments of happiness, moments of joy. But life is very difficult. Unless you're a total idiot. Then you can be happy.
Irvin Kershner
#2. "Take my own father! You know what he said in his last moments? On his deathbed, he defied me to name a man who had enjoyed a better life. In spite of the dreadful pain, his face radiated happiness," said Mother, nodding her head comfortably. "Happiness drives out pain, as fire burns out fire."
Mary Lavin
#4. We do not know either unalloyed happiness or unmitigated misfortune. Everything in this world is a tangled yarn; we taste nothing in its purity; we do not remain two moments in the same state. Our affections as well as bodies, are in a perpetual flux.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#5. The air was swollen with music, shouting, and something I could not quite place- a feeling of happiness, but happiness with an edge, a sense of joy that was all the more meaningful because it was so fleeting.
Chelsey Philpot
#6. In her life, moments of happiness were only gaps between mass catastrophes. She was now afraid of happiness.
Liu Cixin
#7. Thus one finds much more happiness in the world than sad eyes see, if one only reckons rightly, and does not forget all those moments of comfort in which every day is rich, even in the most harried of human lives.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#8. 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
#9. 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
#11. You are the greatest wife of all times and I love you so much more' said my husband, Jeremiah Nii Mama Akita
Lailah Gifty Akita
#12. The more we identify and acknowledge moments when we're unable to share in someone else's pleasure and ask ourselves whether another person's happiness truly jeopardizes our own, the more we pave the way for experiencing sympathetic joy
Sharon Salzberg
#13. I think I've wasted some of my time, but used most of it well, and have realized that my life is not separate from other people's lives or from the universe. I think our moments of happiness really come from a feeling of unity.
Gloria Steinem
#14. Even in the saddest moments of life, the happiness of simply being, the joy of just having existence must be remembered strongly!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#15. Generate happy moments. . . make miracles happen. Love is a miracle too.
Sahara Sanders
#16. To fill life with moments of happiness, be happy in the moment.
Debasish Mridha
#17. Look for me
in sleepless nights,
among the stars,
I'll be your guiding star...
Look for me
in the moments of happiness,
on a green field,
I'll be your joy.
...
Zorica Savron
#19. She was supposed to be happy ... why couldn't she just be happy for a few moments? Why couldn't she just forget everything bad going on her life, and just be happy?
Courtney Carola
#20. Of the gladdest moments in human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of Habit, the leaden weight of Routine, the cloak of many Cares and the slavery of Civilization, man feels once more happy.
Richard Francis Burton
#22. This is man, who, if he can remember ten golden moments of joy and happiness out of all his years, ten moments unmarked by care, unseamed by aches or itches, has power to lift himself with his expiring breath and say: I have lived upon this earth and known glory!
Thomas Wolfe
#23. Moments of something this good, this unexpected and off his usual path, they always dredged up old shit, like somehow happiness came with sorrow as its anchor.
Heidi Cullinan
#24. I want to talk about happiness and well being, about those rare, unexpected moments when the voice in your head goes silent and you feel at one with the world.
Paul Auster
#25. All moments of joy include an element of happiness. But not all moments of happiness include joy. Happiness often comes from drive reduction-avoidance of pain or the pursuit of pleasure for pleasure's sake. The essence of joy, on the other hand, is spirit.
Laurel Mellin
#27. Among even the happiest married couples there are always moments of regret.
Honore De Balzac
#28. I just try to write what I think would really happen, and with grief and tragedy, there are these naturally occurring moments of levity and humor and absurdity. I think that's what life is really like. Sadness gets interrupted, and happiness gets interrupted.
Kaui Hart Hemmings
#29. The refractory pupil of Socrates, Aristippus the Cyrene, who believed happiness to be the sum of particular pleasures and golden moments and not, as Epicurus, a prolonged intermediary state between ecstasy and pain.
Cyril Connolly
#30. The present moment is the only time that is eternal and the only time in which we can experience happiness.
Deepak Chopra
#31. Let us celebrate every little beauty, every little kindness, joy, love, and happiness; and let us express our deepest gratitude for those moments of joy.
Debasish Mridha
#32. Maybe sorrow and its opposite, happiness, are like dark and light. One can't exist without the other. And those moments of overlap are like when the moon and the sun share the same sky. A
Stacey Lee
#33. Be thankful for a breath of fresh air to be alive and well. Allow love and happiness to penetrate throughout your mind and soul. Take time to relax and live in the moment, the now, the present. Enjoy today.
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#34. That one minute of pure happiness I felt and the heartache that came moments later is something I never want to experience again. I'm tired of grieving.
Colleen Hoover
#35. Moments of pure happiness come upon you unexpectedly. Don't be too preoccupied to experience them.
Jessica Lange
#37. I started grasping at moments that weren't misery. Slowly, slowly, I found them.
Kate Milford
#38. He had understood that memory was a place, a real place that one could visit, and that to spend a few moments among the dead was not necessarily bad for you, that it could in fact be a source of great comfort and happiness.
Paul Auster
#39. Our life is sweet, short, and bright. We have enough moments to enjoy the delights of life.
Debasish Mridha
#40. Today only the person who no longer believes in a happy ending, only he who has consciously renounced it, is able to live. A happy century does not exist; but there are moments of happiness, and there is freedom in the moment.
Ernst Junger
#41. Is it possible that even happy moments of pleasure never stand up to a rigorous examination? Possible.
Elena Ferrante
#43. Sometimes happiness is a blessing, but generally it is a conquest. Each day's magic moment helps.
Paulo Coelho
#44. Happiness comes in moments, & then it's gone until the next time. Could be years. But sadness settles it.
Dennis Lehane
#45. Our thinking minds deprive us of the happiness that comes when we are living fully in the moment.
Ram Dass
#46. The world is imperfect, but there are millions of perfect moments.
Priscilla Warner
#47. It was the happiest moment of my life, though I didn't know it.
Orhan Pamuk
#48. The most beautiful moments in life are moments when you are expressing your joy, not when you are seeking it.
Jaggi Vasudev
#49. When we help ourselves, we find moments of happiness. When we help others, we find lasting fulfillment.
Simon Sinek
#50. I have always lived in the present, accepted the misfortunes, made peace with the disappointments, delighted in its little blessings, found happiness in whatever the present moment has offered and sat in the shade of sadness to let the dark moments pass by.
Balroop Singh
#51. When you get a little older, there comes a time when you realise thats whats called happiness consists only of individual lovely moments, those special times that you remember later on.
Nicolas Barreau
#52. One moment of true happiness was worth all the moments of pain. (Jessica)
Shannon A. Thompson
#53. For what it's worth, I think happiness is a fleeting condition, not a permanent state of goddamn mind. I've learned that if you chase after moments of bliss here and there, sometimes those moments will sustain you through the shit.
Tiffanie DeBartolo
#54. Unfortunately, a lot of people in the world will never be get a happy ending and it's okay if they give up, it's okay if they don't persevere, but it's also okay if they push on just for a few moments of happiness before they reach their sad ending.
Christy Leigh Stewart
#55. Life is the sum or product of a bunch of individual moments if you can't enjoy moments then how do you expect to enjoy life?
Matthew Donnelly
#56. You can have small moments of happiness in life. You certainly can't expect years and years of it.
Donatella Versace
#57. Listening to the sound of the water, her sound, her lovely body glistening through the room a moment from now. There are only moments. Live in this one. The happiness of these days.
Kate Millett
#58. Often, we don't recognize real moments of happiness in our lives because we've been expecting something different- something bigger or perhaps more dramatic.
Joan Lunden
#59. The destiny of mankind is arranged for happy moments every life has such but not for happy times.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#60. All the miles of a hard road are worth a moment of true happiness.
Arnold Lobel
#62. This very moment is a seed from which the flowers of tomorrow's happiness grow.
Margaret Lindsay
#63. 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
#64. After a while, I began to notice that the good moments with Brad began to outweigh all the sadness. The sadness that was my life became the moments, and my happiness with Brad became my life
Colleen Hoover
#66. We can no longer afford to throw away even one 'unimportant' day by not noticing the wonder of it all. We have to be willing to discover and then appreciate the authentic moments of happiness available to all of us every day.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#67. Contentment and happiness didn't exist in my life for more than a few moments at a time, and they were really only illusionary. There was always something hidden. Lying in wait to spring up and ruin everything.
Sylvia Day
#68. Happiness" describes moments, and it's never permanent.
Inio Asano
#69. So treasure your moments of happiness, the glimpses you see of truth, the nights you've been loved. That's all you've got.
Fay Weldon
#70. I've had happy moments in my life, but I don't think that happiness
being happy
is a perpetual state that anyone can be in. Life isn't that way.
Grace Kelly
#71. Your perspective is vital to your happiness. Some, blind to the bountiful opportunities around them, live lives of sadness and despair with brief moments of joy. Be alive to the abundant potential that surrounds you so that you live a life of peace and happiness with periods of challenging growth.
Richard G. Scott
#72. I may have had moments of regret in my life, but you know, they wouldn't add up to an hour.
Emma Donoghue
#73. I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that made me happy.
Neil Gaiman
#74. Not many are the moments in life, where the easiest choice also happens to be the best one.
Cherish and remember those moments, but do not let them become a habit, for the fruits that hard work reaps are irreplaceable.
Rosen Topuzov
#75. Another is that the findings demonstrate that happiness is not the surplus of pleasant over unpleasant moments. Rather,
Yuval Noah Harari
#76. There are moments when people are incapable of understanding happiness.
Paulo Coelho
#77. For the first time Saya understood how people can grow accustomed to war. Intensified by the stark contrast between life and death, fleeting moments of joy such as these could make one almost mad with happiness.
Noriko Ogiwara
#78. Living, if we go about it with selfishness and lack of awareness about our interdependence with the universal laws and other beings, turns into a nightmare of suffering with brief moments of happiness
Ivan Figueroa-Otero
#79. Huge difference between being happy at will, and chasing euphoric moments as an escape. One doesn't cost a dime, the other will tax your soul.
T.F. Hodge
#80. Happiness has always seemed like a bluebird, and consists of moments.
Lin Yutang
#81. These were the moments that would stick in her memory for years to come, those instants of perfect bliss that nothing else would ever match again.
Francesca Marciano
#82. In my worst moments, I think the biggest effect of 'Eats, Shoots & Leaves' was to kill the happiness of people who had previously skipped through life, unaware of all the atrocities lurking in the world around them.
Lynne Truss
#83. I knew a gentleman who was so good a manager of his time that he would not even lose that small portion of it which the calls of nature obliged him to pass in the necessary-house; but gradually went through all the Latin poets in those moments.
Lord Chesterfield
#84. A pure white puppy followed on the girl's heels, barking, and the girl laughed in the breathless, drunken way of children as she ran into the hallway.
Kit Alloway
#85. Let us each grasp a new idea this year. Let us grasp the awareness of what it is that makes us truly happy. Let us consider our personal preferences and learn how to recognize, then embrace, moments of happiness that are uniquely our own.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#86. Our fragile, perishable bodies are not who we are. We are the sum of fleeting moments that belong to us for eternity. It is our choice and responsibility to create moments of beauty and grace, instead of despair and suffering.
Dorit Brauer
#87. Those moments you are most joyful,
those moments are most blissful,
and those moments of life are most useful.
Debasish Mridha
#88. Good Lord, only a moment of bliss? Isn't such a moment sufficient for the whole of a man's life?
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#89. In a person's lifetime there may be not more than half a dozen occasions that he can look back to in the certain knowledge that right then, at that moment, there was room for nothing but happiness in his heart.
Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
#90. Live in the present moment and find your interest and happiness in the things of today.
Emmet Fox
#91. Life is about cherishing memories, getting lost in moments of beauty, and enjoying profound joy and happiness.
Debasish Mridha
#93. I was a very focused and determined woman and I always got what I wanted. But once I had it, there was another future moment when I had to attain something else. These internal yearnings keep happiness in a future moment.
Isha Judd
#94. No one tells you how precious and powerful moments of happiness and connection are when you are living through a nightmare.
Philip Gould
#95. Sometimes when you're young, you have moments of such happiness, you think you're living on someplace magical, like Atlantis must have been. Then we grow up and our hearts break into two.
Stephen King
#96. Look back on your life and find those moments of giving. Fill life with those moments; life will be worth living.
Debasish Mridha
#97. I kept looking for happiness, and then I realized: This is it. It's a moment, and it comes, and it goes, and it'll come back again. I yearn for things, but at the same time I'm just peaceful.
Nicole Kidman
#99. Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.
Leo Tolstoy
#100. It is better to experience sorrow than happiness.Many life lessons are learnt in moments of sorrow.
Lailah Gifty Akita
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