Life, if well lived, is long enough.

One should count each day a separate life.

Anxiety is experiencing failure in advance.

Know we how many tomorrows the gods intend for our todays.

All our anxieties relate to time.

You realize that we over-exaggerate yesterday, we over-estimate tomorrow and we underestimate today. We think, "Well, I'm going to kill time," "I'll get back to this tomorrow."

Tick. Tick. Tick. This is the sound of your life running out.

If we take care of the moments the years will take care of themselves.

Why should it feel so risky to count concretely on a future?

Your crises and problems would shrink to manageable proportions because you would be thinking ahead, working on the roots, doing the preventive things that keep situations from developing into crises in the first place. In time management jargon, this is called the Pareto Principle—80 percent of the results flow out of 20 percent of the activities.

As long as we are working in our Circle of Concern, we empower the things within it to control us. We aren't taking the proactive initiative necessary to effect positive change.

Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.