The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.
~ Ashley Montagu
I think the difference between finding happiness, or moments of happiness, is how you choose to interpret things. That's a rather shocking responsibility. That we're responsible for our own happiness. It's not those around us.
~ Natascha Mcelhone
Happiness lies in moments, and while you have it, you're not even aware; only afterwards do you know you were happy.
~ Luise Rainer
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
I have my moments. Ever since I was a boy, I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. Too often I embrace introspection and self-doubt. I wish I could embrace the good things.
~ Hugh Laurie
Some of the greatest moments in human history were fueled by emotional intelligence.
~ Adam Grant
The kitchen really is the castle itself. This is where we spend our happiest moments and where we find the joy of being a family.
~ Mario Batali
Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments written or read together take on the movement and architecture of a narrative.
~ Marilyn Hacker
Religion is a very personal thing for me. Religion has its good moments and its poor moments.
~ Elie Wiesel
The road to recovery will not always be easy, but I will take it one day at a time, focusing on the moments I've dreamed about for so long.
~ Amanda Lindhout
I can mention many moments that were unforgettable and revelatory. But the most single revelatory three minutes was the first time I put on scuba gear and dived on a coral reef. It's just the unbelievable fact that you can move in three dimensions.
~ David Attenborough
There are moments of life that we never forget, which brighten and brighten as time steals away.
~ James Gates Percival
Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.
~ Barbara De Angelis
Candy is childhood, the best and bright moments you wish could have lasted forever.
~ Dylan Lauren
Above all, don't fear difficult moments. The best comes from them.
~ Rita Levi-Montalcini
Some of my happiest moments are the ones I spend with my husband, a few close relatives, and a handful of very good friends who know me well and like me anyway.
~ Robin Marantz Henig
What you end up seeing when you look at history is that people who have been good at pushing the boundaries of possibility, and exploring those frontiers of good ideas and innovations, have rarely done it in moments of great inspiration. They don't just have a brilliant breakthrough idea out of nowhere and leap ahead of everyone else.
~ Steven Johnson
You can't change history. These things happened the way they did. What you can change is how you look at it and how you understand that it takes the good moments and it takes the difficult moments to move forward.
~ Margot Lee Shetterly
There are certain moments in the history of a nation when the choices made define the decades to come.
~ George Papandreou
Motherhood is an amazing feeling, and if you get to relive those special moments while working, it works as an icing on the cake. Kids have always been close to my heart, and working with them is a pleasure for me.
~ Kajol
Here is the amazing thing about Easter; the Resurrection Sunday for Christians is this, that Christ in the dying moments on the cross gives us the greatest illustration of forgiveness possible.
~ T. D. Jakes
Every now and then, I have blissful moments of thanking God for all the amazing things that are happening. When I leave the White House after just meeting Obama or when I see my face on the cover of 'Rolling Stone' or when I meet someone who tells me that their daughter is inspired by me, those are moments that are incredibly joyful.
~ Lea Michele
As a comedian, you want people to like you. That's part of why you're there in the first place: You have this unquenchable need to be liked, and then when you divert from that and take a chance at doing something that has moments of fierce unlikeability, you can hit some real low points.
~ Mike Birbiglia
My fans have made all my career moments special for me. They are the ones that have gotten me through every single thing - good times and bad, they are who I go to and lean on. I am very thankful for that.
~ Mariah Carey
I'm thankful for serendipitous moments in my life, where things could've gone the other way.
~ Rick Springfield
I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.
It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.
~ Marcel Proust
For many people who are so lost in their minds, so much involved in their thought processes, the only moments they have when they are not trapped in that is when they are relating to their animal, their pet.
~ Eckhart Tolle
One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
I mean, making art is about objectifying your experience of the world, transforming the flow of moments into something visual, or textual, or musical, whatever. Art creates a kind of commentary.
~ Barbara Kruger
Anybody who has gone through a life-changing experience will tell you there is a different understanding of what is real and what is important, and when you are going through different moments, you can reflect and go, 'I have been through worse.'
~ Delta Goodrem
I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience.
I've decided to retire from top class racing. It has been an incredible experience and has provided with me some unforgettable moments.
~ Sete Gibernau
I like those crisis moments - if you're on top of it and don't get pulled under by panic and fear, it's a very bonding thing.
~ Bill Pullman
I think the currency of leadership is transparency. You've got to be truthful. I don't think you should be vulnerable every day, but there are moments where you've got to share your soul and conscience with people and show them who you are, and not be afraid of it.
~ Howard Schultz
For so many years, I felt so insecure, so inferior, and I still have those moments, but I have a newfound confidence since I got in shape and changed my diet.
~ Marc Jacobs
That's what acting is - it's about... having the courage to allow your audience into the private moments of your characters' lives.
~ Kerry Washington
All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.
~ Erma Bombeck
I think the moments that are difficult for anybody are when you see what your life could be, if only you had the courage to take the steps needed.
~ John Slattery
There have been so many great moments, and I feel so blessed every day.
~ Vusi Mahlasela
