Daddy Long Legs

It isn't the great big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones--I've discovered the true
secret of happiness, Daddy, and that is to live in the now.





Not to be for ever regretting the past, or anticipating the future; but to get the most that you can out of this very instant.



It's like farming. You can have extensive farming and intensive farming; well, I am going to have intensive living after this.





I'm going to enjoy every second, and I'm going to know I'm enjoying it while I'm enjoying it.







Most people don't live; they just race.





They are trying to reach some goal far away on the horizon, and in the heat of the going they get so breathless and panting that they lose all sight of the beautiful, tranquil country they are passing through; and then the first thing they know, they are old and worn out, and it doesn't make any difference whether they've reached the goal or not.











I've decided to sit down by the way and pile up a lot of little happinesses, even if I never become a Great Author.





Did you ever know such a philosopheress as I am developing into?





-Judy Abbott, Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster (1912)