Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways. РStephen Vincent Ben̩t

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough. – Maurice Maeterlinck, Wisdom and Destiny, 1901, translated by Alfred Sutro

Life, if well lived, is long enough. – Seneca, De Ira

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday. – Ralph Waldo Emerson