Remember that there is only one important time and that is now. The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion. The most important person is always the person you are with, who is right before you, for who knows if you will have dealings with any other person in the future? The most important pursuit is making the person standing at your side happy, for that alone is the pursuit of life.

Tolstoy, from his story “The Emperor’s Three Questions as quoted by  the Venerable Thich Nhat Hanh in his famous seminal classic book “The Miracle of Mindfulness” (1975)