It is not little time that we have. It is a lot of time that we waste.

Seneca

Making a decision was only the beginning of things. When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision.

Paulo Coelho

But you cannot understand life and its mysteries as long as you try to grasp it. Indeed, you cannot grasp it, just as you cannot walk off with a river in a bucket. If you try to capture running water in a bucket, it is clear that you do not understand it and that you will always be disappointed, for in the bucket the water does not run. To have running water you must let go of it and let it run.

Alan W. Watts, "Into the Wild"

Nothing that lies in the past is to be regretted. My regret was for the present day, for all the countless hours and days that I lost in mere passivity and suffering. The days that brought no presents nor downfalls. But, thank God, there were exceptions. There were, though rarely, the hours that brought downfalls, that brought gifts, that tore down walls and brought my lost self back to the beating heart of the world.

Hermann Hesse, "Der Steppenwolf"