Happiness and Present Moment

To wait for someone else, or to expect someone else to make my life richer, or fuller, or more satisfying, puts me in a constant state of suspension; and I miss all those moments that pass. They never come back to be experienced again.

• Kathleen Tierney Crilly

If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, w are chasing a will-o’-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, our ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death. 

• Alan Watts. The Wisdom of Insecurity