Be wise, strain the wine and cut back long hope into asmall space. Even as we speak, envious time flies past.
Seize the day [carpe diem) and leave as little as possiblefor tomorrow.
HORACE, ODE XI, FIRST BOOK OF ODES
Nothing must be postponed. Take time by the forelock.
Now or never! You must live in the present, launch yourselfon every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Foolsstand on their island opportunities and look towardanother land. There is no other land; there is no other lifebut this, or the like of this. Where the good husbandman is,
there is the good soil. Take any other course, and life willbe a succession of regrets. Let us see vessels sailingprosperously before the wind, and not simply strandedbarks. There is no world for the penitent and regretful.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU, JOURNAL ENTRYThe cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call lifewhich is required to be exchanged for it,
immediately or in the long run.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU, WALDENLife can only be understood backwards, but it has to belived forwards.
SØREN KIERKEGAARD, JOURNAL 1843