No one imagines that a symphony is supposed to improve in quality as it goes along, or that the whole object of it is to reach the finale. The point of music is discovered in every moment of playing and listening to it. It is the same, I feel, with the greater part of our lives, and if we are unduly absorbed in improving them, we may forget altogether to live them
Alan Watts, This is it
et d’être simplement heureux)
Guillaume Apollinaire
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But if you knew you might not be able to see it again tomorrow,
everything would suddenly become special and precious,
wouldn’t it?
Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
Nobody sees a flower really: it is so small
We haven’t time, and to see takes time
Georgia O’Keefe, American painter
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We are more interested in making others believe we are happy
than in trying to be happy ourselves.
de La Rochefoucauld,
We have only now,
only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us,
day and night.
Jack Kornfield
