Dog Quote by Douglas Coupland

“It was a uniquely human problem, something no other animal had to put up with, this ability to suffer in multiple tenses – simultaneously…

— Gavin Extence

Living in present is painful when the past was awesome, and every day we live with the thought of past and the present becomes…

— Santanu Mishra

Suppose you are drinking a cup of tea. When you hold your cup, you may like to breathe in, to bring your mind back…

— Nhat Hanh

Life as such has to be taken as a cosmic joke - and then suddenly you relax because there is nothing to be tense…

— Rajneesh

“Nostalgia is a powerful drug to which intelligent and sensitive people resort when they are bored or frightened by the times they are living…

— John Gloag

“If you can live with the sadness of human life (what Rinpoche often called the tender heart or the genuine heart of sadness), if…

— Pema Chödrön

“Almost all sadness comes from thinking about the past, and all worry from thinking about the future — present-mindedness is your only safe haven.”

— Bryant McGill

I don’t think we ever really live in the present; instead, we’re either just this side of the past or future, wavering anxiously between…

— Jonathan Hull

“We are so consumed with wanting this or that or are wanting to solve our problems, that we fail to see Life’s impermanence. Most…

— AVIS Viswanathan

“Nostalgia is an affliction. Life a fever or a cancer, the longing for what had vanished wasting a person away. Not just the unbearable…

— Hala Alyan

What keeps us from happiness is our inability to fully inhabit the present

— Alan Watts

“Life can only be understood backward; but it must be lived forward. —Kierkegaard”

— Barry Eisler