“They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
“Everybody's trying to make every minute of the present last forever. Preserve every second.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, book Choke
Source: Choke
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is equally relevant.
The World's Last Night (1952)
“Enjoy every minute of life. Never second-guess life.”
Michael Jordan (1963) American retired professional basketball player and businessman
How to be like Mike (2005)
“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
No known source in Emerson's works; first found as a piece of anonymous folk-wisdom in a 1936 newspaper column:<br>: Every minute you are angry, you lose 60 seconds of happiness.<br>:* Junius, "Office Cat" https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/85995624/, The Daily Freeman [Kingston, NY] (30 December 1936), p. 6 <br class="br">Misattributed
“I know this doesn't last forever, so I'm cherishing every moment of it”
Cub Swanson (1983) American mixed martial artist
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“Every moment you steal from the present is a moment you've lost forever. There is only now.”
Jeanette Winterson book The Passion
Variant: every moment you steal from the present is a moment you have lost for ever. There's only now.
Source: The Passion
