Quintus Horatius Flaccus was born in Venusia, December 8, 65 BC and died in Rome, November 27, 8 BC. He is known in the world of literature simply as Horace. He as the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus.

Occasionally you run across a poem that has as much meaning today as it had several thousand years ago. I try to live every day for today, not yesterday or tomorrow. I seldom if ever look back on my yesterdays, I normally enjoy all my todays and except for an addiction to making lists of what needs to be done, do not look to far into my tomorrows. I too want to be happy for for what has been.

Happy the Man

Happy the man, and happy he alone,
He who can call today his own:
He who, secure within, can say,
Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
Be fair or foul or rain or shine
The joys I have possessed, in spite or fate, are mine.
Not Heaven itself upon the past has power,
But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.

"Happy the Man" by Horace, from Odes, Book III, xxix. Translation by John Dryden. Public domain.