True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.Blaise Pascal
It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.Fyodor Dostoevsky