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Our
todays make our tomorrows, and our present lives determine the bridge on which we must enter the next life.
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Living
life in terms of your vision and working toward your
goals must be done
in the context of today's activities. Do not focus too heavily on the results
of your efforts.
Do not live for the future attainment of your goal. Live
your life
through the lens of your vision and what can be
done in the present moment.
Living your vision is not
about reaching your goals. It is about living
and working
toward them. It is not about producing results but about
living
your life in a more meaningful and personally
rewarding way.
Ari Kiev |
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Just for today I will
remember that I am
getting better and
becoming whole.
I
will realize that I
have more to bring
to a relationship
than I did yesterday.
Just for today my
life is beautiful, I am
beautiful,
and
I have
all I need to get
through the day.
Katherine
Gardner
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Bernie Siegel
Only you know what you
need to do to live a happy life. You are
the expert and
know the secret lies in loving, forgiving, believing,
accepting, and creating. You probably intend to do all of
that,
and are deciding now when you are going to start
living
your authentic life. Stop deciding, just do it!
Remember this: Now is the only time you have. When God
created
the universe, it was now. You can't say to
creation and energy,
"I'll do it later, not now."
Later doesn't exist. Creation doesn't know
anything but
now. Whenever you get around to doing what you
want to do,
it will be now. The things you need to do to live a
happier,
more fulfilling life--the only time you can
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| What
we are left with then is the present, the only time where
miracles happen. We place the past and the future as well
into the hands of God. The biblical statement that "time
shall be no more" means that we will one day live
fully in the present, without obsessing about past or
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Marianne
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Just
for today, I will try to live through this day only, and
not tackle my whole life problem at once. I can do
something for twelve hours that would appall me if I felt
I had to keep it up for a lifetime.
Just for today, I will be happy. This assumes to be true
what Abraham Lincoln said, that "most folks are as
happy as they make up their minds to be."
Just for today, I will try to strengthen my mind. I will
study. I will learn something useful. I will not be a
mental loafer. I will read something that requires effort,
thought and concentration.
Just for today, I will adjust myself to what is, and not
try to adjust everything to my own desires. I will take
my "luck" as it comes, and fit myself to it.
Just for today, I will exercise my soul in three ways: I
will do somebody a good turn, and not get found out. I
will do at least two things I don't want to do--just for
exercise. I will not show anyone that my feelings are
hurt; they may be hurt, but today I will not show it.
Just for today, I will be agreeable. I will look as well
as I can, dress becomingly, talk low, act courteously,
criticize not one bit, not find fault with anything and
not try to improve or regulate anybody except myself.
Just for today, I will have a program. I may not follow
it exactly, but I will have it. I will save myself from
two pests: hurry and indecision.
Just for today, I will have a quiet half hour all by
myself, and relax. During this half hour, sometime, I
will try to get a better perspective of my life.
Just for today, I will be unafraid. Especially I will not
be afraid to enjoy what is beautiful, and to believe that
as I give to the world, so the world will give to me.
Kenneth L. Holmes |
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| John
Newton
I
compare the troubles which we have to undergo in the
course of the year
to a great bundle of sticks, far too
large for us to lift. But God does not require us
to
carry the whole at once. He mercifully unties the
bundle, and gives us
first one stick, which we are to
carry today, and then another, which we are
to carry
tomorrow, and so on. This we might easily manage,
if we would only take
the burden appointed for us each
day; but we choose to increase our troubles
by carrying
yesterday's stick over again today, and adding tomorrow's
burden
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Would'st shape a noble life? Then
cast
No backward glances toward the past,
And though somewhat be lost and gone,
Yet do thou act as one new-born;
What each day needs, that shalt thou ask,
Each day will set its proper tasks.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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difficult to live in the present than many people lead us
to believe it is. The other day I was hiking up a
mountain, and I found it a constant struggle to focus on
all that surrounded me, all the beauty that was there.
All this struggle, and I try to live fully in the present.
I have to wonder how difficult it is for people who make
no attempt to do so. My mind was all over the place--on
something that had happened the day before, on something
that had happened weeks or months or years before, on
some things that had never happened, on what I was going
to be doing when I got home and the next day and the next
week. . . . It's
fascinating to see just how quickly the mind can focus
elsewhere. Thought is a gift, but I believe that too
often, we use it as a way to escape today, to escape this
present moment, because right now is too boring or too
dangerous or too risky. Of course, we have to make plans
and we have to think ahead, but can't we get the most out
of the now while we're doing so? I find that I'm most
fully in the present when I'm working on something,
focusing on the process of creating something or fixing
something or fulfilling some need.
I believe that it takes
a lot of work to learn to focus on the present moment,
and I know that I've still got a lot of work to go.
Or maybe I'm all wrong--maybe
those people who don't have to try to live in the present
are the ones who do so most fully.
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| Samuel
Johnson
It is
common to overlook what is near by keeping the eye fixed
on something remote. In the same manner present
opportunities
are neglected, and attainable good is
slighted by minds busied
in extensive ranges and intent
upon future advantages. |
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They who have so many
causes of joy, and so great, are very much in love
with
sorrow and irritability if they lose all these pleasures
and choose
to sit down upon their little handful of thorns.
Enjoy the blessings of this day,
if God sends them,
and bear patiently and sweetly the evils of it,
for this
day only is ours. We are dead to yesterday, and we
are not yet born
to tomorrow. But if we look abroad
and bring into one day's thoughts
the evil of many things
certain and uncertain, what will be and
what will never
be, our load will be as intolerable as it is unreasonable.
Jeremy Taylor |
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The
present contains all that there is. It is holy ground;
for it is the past, and it is the future.
Alfred North Whitehead |
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Through loyalty to the past, our
mind refuses to realize that
tomorrow's joy is possible
only if today's makes way for it;
that each wave owes the
beauty of its line only to the withdrawal
of the
preceding one.
Andre Gide
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It
is cheap generosity which promises the future in
compensation for the present.
J.A. Spender |
Do
today's duty, fight today's temptation; do not weaken
yourself by looking forward to things you cannot see,
and
could not understand if you saw them.
Charles Kingsley |
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Today's egg is better than
tomorrow's hen.
Turkish proverb
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You had
better live your best and act your best and think your
best today;
for today is the sure preparation for
tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.
Harriet Martineau |
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Yesterday is ashes, tomorrow wood.
Only today does the fire burn brightly.
Old Eskimo proverb
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I am not afraid of
tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William
Allen White |
Think
not of what you did yesterday, but what you can do for yourself
today.
Jerry
Pate |
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I feel very happy to see
the sun come up every day.
I feel happy to be around. . . . I
like to take
this day--any day--and go to town with it.
James Dickey |
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It
has been well said that no
person ever sank under the burden
of the
day. It is when
tomorrow's
burden is added to the burdens of
today that the weight is
more than
a person can bear. Never
load
yourselves so, my friends. If
you find
yourself so loaded, at least remember
this:
it is your own doing, not God's. He begs you to leave the
future to Him, and mind the present.
George
MacDonald |
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We all get 24 hours a
day. It's the only fair thing;
it's the only thing that's
equal. It's up to us as to
what we do with those 24 hours.
Sam Huff
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It
is something to be able to paint a particular picture,
or to carve
a statue, and so make a few objects beautiful;
but it is far more
glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere
and medium through
which we look.
To affect the quality of the day--that is the
highest of arts.
Henry
David Thoreau |
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You
have to count on living every single day in a way you believe
will
make you feel good about your life--so that if it
were over
tomorrow, you'd be content with yourself.
Jane
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