Grasping the Moment Quotes

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

In life, people tend to wait for good things to come to them. And by waiting, they miss out.

I have never lived a life so much larger than death. (93)

~I've learned the value of absorbing the moment. I remember the first time Ripley saw her shadow. My God, it was like shadows had just been invented. It was the most exquisite moment.~

You're pretending this isn't your life. You think it's going to happen some other time. When you're dead you'll realise you were alive now.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.

It's not having what you want, it's wanting what you've got.

Why do so many of us not give ourselves permission to be alive until we are absolutely assured that we will die? ...If we are not in [this present millisecond of life and conscious experience], we are not alive; we are merely thinking our lives. Yet we have seen so many die, looking back over their shoulders at their lives, shaking their heads and muttering in bewilderment, "What was that all about?"

I try to take all of my experiences in and not take anything for granted.

Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.

'Everything To Me' is about everything that's important. It's about my wife, my kids, it's about life, about being happy. It's about life in general, you know, about not knowing what's going to be around the corner, but you've got to enjoy it and enjoy the things you have. My wife, my kids, my health, and stuff like that.

Life is short, youth is finite, and opportunities endless

Pluck with quick hand the fruit that passes.

Sometimes you are so busy you forget to appreciate what you have.

If you wait for things to be perfect you'll just miss out on life.

Life, Lady Stutfield, is simply a mauvais quart d'heure made up of exquisite moments.

What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

We must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.

I never lie down at night without reflecting that, young as I am, I may not live to see another day.

Just celebrate the life you had, not the life you could've had.

To hold happiness is to hold the understanding that the world passes away from us, that the petals fall and the beloved dies. No amount of mockery, no amount of fashionable scowling will keep any of us from knowing and savoring the pleasure of the sun on our faces or save us from the adult understanding that it cannot last forever.

I think sometimes we forget what we have, and occasionally it's important to remind ourselves.