That Happy Moments Quotes

#1. The tragedy of man is that the happy moments of life behave like the birds of the forests: They appear and disappear suddenly!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#2. All of our lives are important, even the parts of our past that we have ignored, downplayed, or forgotten. If we open the door to our past, we will discover God there, accompanying us in both happy and sad moments.

James Martin

#3. To say that a family is happy I think is to diminish it, taking out what is interesting. Growing up, I don't think my family was any happier or unhappier than anyone else's. My mother and father should have been divorced or never even married. On the other hand, I remember many moments of happiness.

Per Petterson

#4. You can lead a happy life if you recognize that it's limited and completely unpredictable from one moment to the next.

Wolfgang Schauble

#5. Happiness comes uninvited: and the moment that you are conscious that you are happy, you are no longer happy.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#6. I do to miss my childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in simple things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not away from things, or people or moments that hurt, but I found joy in the things that made me happy.

Neil Gaiman

#7. A thousand happy moments succumbed to history. It was the happiest hour of the year, worst time of our lives. I can still smell the ruins from that cold dark brute stormy October night.

Parul Wadhwa

#8. Anatomy lab, in the end, becomes less a violation of the sacred and more something that interferes with happy hour, and that realization discomfits. In our rare reflective moments, we were all silently apologizing to our cadavers, not because we sensed the transgression but because we did not.

Paul Kalanithi

#9. This I consider to be one of the essences of life. It never warns us if something bad is going to happen and it never spoils the surprise by giving a hint about the happy moments that we are going to come across soon.

Sreehari

#10. The narrative compression of storytelling, especially in the movies, beguiles us with happy endings into forgetting that sustained stress is corrosive of feeling. It's the great deadener. Those moments of joyful release from terror are not so easily had.

Ian McEwan

#11. He was feeling happy. It was one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of exhiliration; there are always comparisons which can be made with worse times: even in danger and misery the pendulum swings. (The Power and the Glory)

Graham Greene

#12. I want a long life, measured not in days and years but the moments that we spent together

Sapan Saxena

#13. We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

Henry David Thoreau

#14. Happy Endings are an illusion. Real life is filled with brief moments of fleeting happiness, but ultimately every life is a tragedy that ends in death and grief.

Oliver Gaspirtz

#15. That was happiness. Not the framed greatest hits, but the moments in between. At the time, I hadn't pegged them as being particularly happy. But now, looking back at those phantom snapshots, I'm struck by my calm, my ease, the evident comfort with my life. I'm happy in retrospect.

Maria Semple

#16. Because if you're lucky enough to have people in your life that make you happy, that inspire you, that move you, you need to devour each moment you have together because you never know how many of those moments you have left. These people are sacred.

Katie Kacvinsky

#17. Why don't we keep track of the happy moments, so that afterward we will believe them? Is he the same man Was he really sincere?

Naguib Mahfouz

#18. I have never taken a picture for any other reason than that at that moment it made me happy to do so.

Jacques-Henri Lartigue

#19. One has a few moments that are tolerable
one breathes,as it were,again;one remembers things,but one hardly hopes.I hope for the New Age-that is all-which will cure all our woes,and give us new ones,and make us happy enough for death ...

Lytton Strachey

#20. For reasons that seem obvious to me, I don't believe in happy endings or even in endings at all, but I am as susceptible to moments of indulgent fantasy as anybody else.

John Darnielle

#21. By the end of 'Game Change,' one feels that the candidates' few happy moments are those when they 'lose it.'

Tina Brown

#22. You worked so hard to achieve.' It blinds us to everything else, to the moments we've joyfully experienced, to happy times and the bonds created during those occasions. How is it that hatred

Paulo Coelho

#23. The dog is still in the natural state. And you can easily see that, because you have problems and your dog doesn't. And while your happy moments may be rare, your dog celebrates life continuously.

Eckhart Tolle

#24. 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

#25. Time is precious and should be spent doing things that make you happy, not brushing those very moments aside. That's when you really die, and I plan on living.

Katelin LaMontagne

#26. 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

#27. Too often, we decide to follow a path that is not really our own, one that others have set for us. We forget that ... in both cases we will pass through both difficult and happy moments. But when we are living our dream, the difficulties we encounter make sense.

Paulo Coelho

#28. 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

#29. The very worst events in life have that effect on a family: we always remember, more sharply than anything else, the last happy moments before everything fell apart.

Fredrik Backman

#30. How happy the station which every moment furnishes opportunities of doing good to thousands! How dangerous that which every moment exposes to the injuring of millions!

Jean De La Bruyere

#31. Sometimes I find that in my happy moments I could not believe that I had ever been miserable.

Marion Milner

#32. We look at each other, at random and totally ordinary moments, and just say the words "happy days"! And by doing that we constantly remind ourselves that any average day with each other is plainly happy.

Andreas Souvaliotis

#33. The problem with being happy in the moment is, moments never last. Things change whether you want them to or not, which makes it only smart to keep looking ahead. That's how people avoid getting hit by cars.

Laura Peyton Roberts

#34. It's life, that's all. There are no happy endings, just happy days, happy moments. The only real ending is death, and trust me, no one dies happy. And the price of not dying is that things change all the time, and the only thing you can count on is that there's not a thing you can do about it.

Jonathan Tropper

#35. Is it possible that even happy moments of pleasure never stand up to a rigorous examination? Possible.

Elena Ferrante

#36. It's easy to say that people focusing on the bad is what makes them miserable. What's not easy is to take a life full of misery and find the joy. While there may be moments of levity, never assume they can make me truly happy.

Leah Alvord

#37. Perfect happiness is a beautiful sunset, the giggle of a grandchild, the first snowfall. It's the little things that make happy moments, not the grand events. Joy comes in sips, not gulps.

Sharon Draper

#38. So maybe that's what the difference is, is that when you intend to be happy, then you figure out ways to sustain your happiness or your ability to feel moments of joy in your life.

Goldie Hawn

#39. I put the photo in an album called Mortifying Emotional Moments, and I title it Soggy Napkin Note. The last selfie I posted in there was of me on the day I graduated college. My perfectly made up face is happy ... relieved. I called that one: Sallie Mae Can Suck It.

Tarryn Fisher

#40. I take it not only a day at a time, but a moment at a time, and keep it at that pace. If you can be happy right now, then you'll always be happy, because it's always in the now

Willie Nelson

#41. Today is a special day that will go by very fast, so let's take every second to make the most out of every moment.

Auliq Ice

#42. We are all trying to find a path back to the present moment. And good enough reason to just be happy here ... Mindfulness meditation is just a trick for doing that. It's a trick for setting aside your to-do list, if only for a few moments, and actually locate a feeling of fulfilment in the present

Sam Harris

#43. Happiness is a state of which you are unconscious. The moment you are aware that you are happy, you cease to be happy.

Jiddu Krishnamurti