"Forget everything else.
Keep hold of this alone and remember it: Each of us lives only now, this brief instant.
The past has been lived already, and the future is impossible to see.
The span we live is small - small as the corner of the earth in which we live it.
Small as even the greatest renown, passed from mouth to mouth by short-lived stick figures, ignorant alike of themselves and those long dead." - Marcus Aurelius