“We're silent now, both waiting, till I remind myself that I'm the older one and should therefore initiate conversation. But I don't. I don't want to waste this girl with idle chitchat. She's beautiful.”
“I don't like myself you know. I love myself. I'm devoted to myself till my dying day. But I don't like myself.”
“I like who I am now. Other people may not. I'm comfortable. I feel freer now. I don't want growing older to matter to me.”
“For a second, I'm afraid he's dying. I have to remind myself that I don't care.”
“I can see myself now, she said. And I can see what I want to be, ten years from now. But I don't understand how I'm going to get from here to there.”
“When I find myself focusing overmuch on the anticipated future happiness of arriving at a certain goal, I remind myself to 'Enjoy now'. If I can enjoy the present, I don't need to count on the happiness that is (or isn't) waiting for me in the future".”