“What if it turns out that a life isn't defined by who you belong to, or where you came from, by what you wished for or whom you've lost, but instead by the moments you spend getting from each of these places to the next?”

Source: Peaches

Variant: every moment you steal from the present is a moment you have lost for ever. There's only now.
Source: The Passion

Bergman on Bergman (1970)

Source: No Country for Old Men (2005)

Source: The Calder Game

Source: It's Called a Breakup Because It's Broken: The Smart Girl's Break-Up Buddy

2000s
Context: No matter who you are, engaging in the quest to discover where and how things began tends to induce emotional fervor—as if knowing the beginning bestows upon you some form of fellowship with, or perhaps governance over, all that comes later. So what is true for life itself is no less true for the universe: knowing where you came from is no less important than knowing where you are going.

Source: Handle with Care