I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.Virginia Woolf
Every mans life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.Marcus Aurelius
Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.Marcus Aurelius
Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.Marcus Aurelius
And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.Marcus Aurelius
It seems that I have always been ahead of my time. I had to wait nineteen years before Niagara was harnessed by my system, fifteen years before the basic inventions for wireless which I gave to the world in 1893 were applied universally.Nikola Tesla
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.Theodore Roosevelt