How can something feel so crucial in the moment and then seem completely trivial after the fact?

The Buddha told him, "When we sit, we know we are sitting. When we walk, we know we are walking. When we eat, we know we are eating,

She plucked the blossoms from the bag and arranged them, one by one, in the water glass on her dressing table.
"They'll never keep," I said. "They're [hibiscus] a terrible cutting flower. They'll wilt by morning."
"I know," she said." But don't they look so pretty right now, just as they are?"
I nodded. I wished I could see the beauty in the moment the way Kitty did. It was a gift.

I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live.

You can't go back to how things were. How you thought they were. All you really have is...now.

Life is a journey, not a destination.