“They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever.”
“Everybody's trying to make every minute of the present last forever. Preserve every second.”
Source: Choke
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The World's Last Night (1952)
“Enjoy every minute of life. Never second-guess life.”
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“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
No known source in Emerson's works; first found as a piece of anonymous folk-wisdom in a 1936 newspaper column:
: Every minute you are angry, you lose 60 seconds of happiness.
:* Junius, "Office Cat" https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/85995624/, The Daily Freeman [Kingston, NY] (30 December 1936), p. 6
Misattributed
“I know this doesn't last forever, so I'm cherishing every moment of it”
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“Every moment you steal from the present is a moment you've lost forever. There is only now.”
Variant: every moment you steal from the present is a moment you have lost for ever. There's only now.
Source: The Passion