"Waste not fresh tears over old griefs...." - Quote by Euripides

“Power gives no purchase to the hand, it will not hold, soon perishes, and greatness goes.”

“Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. Tragedy isn't getting something or failure to get it; it's losing something you already have. Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.”

“When two souls compose a single song, The muse fans Livid wrath before long.”

“Sometime we get so addicted to murmuring about the past and blaming the past for everything that we miss our whole future. You're not going to enjoy your future, and you're not going to enjoy your right now, if all you can do is be guilty and ashamed and afraid of your past.”

“Most people are rowing against the current of life. Instead of turning the boat around, all they need to do is let go of the oars.”

“When I can't handle events, I let them handle themselves.”

“A myriad of men are born; they labor and sweat and struggle; ...they squabble and scold and fight; they scramble for little mean advantages over each other; age creeps upon them; infirmities follow; ...those they love are taken from them, and the joy of life is turned to aching grief. It comes at last--the only unpoisoned gift earth ever had for them--and they vanish from a world where they were of no consequence, ...a world which will lament them a day and forget them forever.”

“Our lives ... are but a little while, so let them run as sweetly as you can, and give no thought to grief from day to day. For time is not concerned to keep our hopes, but hurries on its business, and is gone.”

“His grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom.”