"I want death to find me planting my cabbages, neither worrying about it nor the unfinished garden."

-- Montaigne

"To live a fulfilling life, we must appreciate every bit of what is happening right now."

-- Yehuda Berg

"There is nothing that you need to understand before you can become present."

-- Eckhart Tolle

"He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life in remembering the past."

-- Thoreau

"Look not back in anger, or forward in fear, but around in awareness."

-- James Thurber

"Slight not what's near by aiming at what's far."

-- Euripedes