Only that day dawns to which we are awake. – Henry David Thoreau

Life is a flash of lightning in the dark of night. It is a brief time of tremendous potential. – B. Alan Wallace

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. – Author unknown, sometimes attributed to W.M. Lewis