“If you are not happy here and now, you never will be.”

—  Taisen Deshimaru

As quoted in The Book of Positive Quotations (2007) by John Cook, Steve Deger and Leslie Ann Gibson, p. 279

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Japanese Buddhist monk 1914–1982

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