Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way.
Alan WattsThe greater part of human activity is designed to make permanent those experiences and joys which are only lovable because they are changing.
Alan WattsIf my happiness at this moment consists largely in reviewing happy memories and expectations, I am but dimly aware of this present. I shall still be dimly aware of the present when the good things that I have been expecting come to pass. For I shall have formed a habit of looking behind and ahead, making it difficult for me to attend to the here and now. If, then , my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.
Alan Watts