Our time is a very shadow that passeth away. 5071 Time has only a relative existence. 5073 Time destroys the speculations of man, but it confirms the judgment of nature. A man that is young in years may be old in hours, if he has lost no time. What a day may bring, a day may take away.
Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
He that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends. The future influences the present just as much as the past. We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal. The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect is already in the cause. The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.