“We are very good at preparing to live, but not very good at living. We know how to sacrifice ten years for a diploma, and we are willing to work very hard to get a job, a car, a house, and so on. But we have difficulty remembering that we are alive in the present moment, the only moment there is for us to be alive.”

- Thich Nhat Hanh (via cosmic-rebirth)

http://ift.tt/1lhQ0zt (via painting-a-picture)

Yeah, especially when those ten years are up, and you are left with your diploma and nothing else.

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