“To lose one's life is but to lose the present; and, clearly, to lose a defiled, worthless present is not to lose much.”

“One who loses wealth loses much. One who loses a friend loses more. But one who loses courage loses all.”

“The clock of life is wound but once,And no man has the powerTo tell just when the hands will stopAt late or early hour.To lose one's wealth is sad indeed,To lose one's health is more,To lose one's soul is such a lossThat no man can restore.The present only is our own,So live, love, toil with a will,Place no faith in "Tomorrow,"For the Clock may then be still.”

“He who spends time regretting the past loses the present and risks the future.”

“The prospect of future lives in remote heavens as a compensation for the inadequacy of our present lives is a bad tradeoff for losing out on the present.”

“The sorrow of losing what we love is nothing to the torment of having it present but denied us.”