Yo que me figuraba el Paraiso bajo la especie de una biblioteca.
[I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library].
Jorge Luis Borges, Poema de los Dones

You cannot wait for the future and you cannot pursue the past.
But the past will surely catch up with you and you will surely catch up with the future.
Zuangzhi

To learn, and at due times to repeat what one has learnt, is that not after all a pleasure?
Analects of Confucius

The way is broad, reaching left as well as right. Having accomplished the task and having done the work it does not assume the name of the owner.
Lao-Tzu, Tao Ching 78

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains. Jane Austin and Seth Grahame-Smith, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies