The man least dependent upon the mor...

The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully. ~ Epicurus

If you worry about what might be, an...

If you worry about what might be, and wonder what might have been, you will ignore what is. ~ Anonymous

Poggio Bracchiolini the Florentine in Baden, Germany, 1416

"We are terrified of true catastrophes and are thrown into a continuous state of misery and anxiety, and for fear of becoming miserable, we never cease to be so, always panting for riches and never giving our souls or our bodies a moment's peace.  But those who are content with little live day by day and treat any day like a feast day."

on Epicureanism from Steven Greenblatt's The Swerve, page 176

an account of the Humanist Revival, the Renaissance