Author of quotes: Hades al-Karni. Page 3

Our life is today, because yesterday is gone forever and tomorrow has not yet arrived. How many people in the world who could be happy, but they have deprived themselves of this possibility. All my childhood they said, "when I grow up...", "That's when I would so many years..." - and lived with these thoughts. When they grew up, they began to say: "That's when I graduate...", "when I grow up...", "That's when I would so many years..." Becoming a young man or girl, they reasoned, "Now when I get married...", "That's when I get married...", "That's when I graduate from College...", "That's when I'll get a job...", "That's when I would so many years..." But when they grow up and marry, these "when" not getting smaller. This continues until, until they begin to say, "That's when I'll retire..." And then, looking back, they suddenly realize that life has passed, and they lived for a minute: they were waiting for the implementation of each "when", after which appeared new and new conditions for happiness. And leaked their entire life waiting for happiness, impossible, in their opinion, without the cherished "when". So they died, without waiting for an illusory happiness, and did not realize a great many of its "when". They couldn't rejoice in the fact that they had not been able to live for today and not understood that you can be happy today, right now.