“The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.”
“Dnt Think About Past , THat It Was Better Than Present ,Always Think About Future, to Make It Better Than Past ....”
“The past always seems better when you look back on it than it did at the time. And the present never looks as good as it will in the future.”
“One of the schools in Tlön has reached the point of denying time. It reasons that the present is undefined, that the future has no other reality than as present hope, that the past is no more than present memory.”
“No time better than the present,’ I always say. Or was that, ‘Nothing is better than a present’? I forget.”
“It's hard to be less than happy when you can be happy with less.”