Michael Douglas

“The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory.”
― Henri Bergson, Matter and Memory

“As he thinks, so he is; as he continues to think, so he remains.”
― James Allen, As a Man Thinketh

“Love leaped out in front of us like a murderer in an alley leaping out of nowhere, and struck us both at once. As lightning strikes, as a Finnish knife strikes! She, by the way, insisted afterwards that it wasn’t so, that we had, of course, loved each other for a long, long time, without knowing each other, never having seen each other… ”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations