by Robert Wilkinson I was reading something about Groucho Marx and this gem of a quote was in it: “There’s a prayer of sorts I recite to myself every night. I don’t know where it comes from, but it’s me: ‘Unborn tomorrow, and dead yesterday, why fret about them if today be sweet?’ ” Read on to find out where the Master wit found that one…. The author of that article, Ian Ellis-Jones, tipped us off that it’s from The Rubaiyat of Oman Khayyam. He then offered that another time “Groucho expressed it this way. ‘Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, and I’m going to be happy in it.’ On yet another occasion he expanded on the same theme: Each morning, when I open my eyes, I say to myself I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead. Tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it. That’s living in the NOW. And since we get to choose how we ...