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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

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 Seymour

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 possibly start doing them is now.

Bernie Siegel

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 future.

Marianne Williamson

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
to our load, before we are required to bear it.

John Newton

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

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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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

Today's egg is better than tomorrow's hen.

Turkish proverb

Yesterday is ashes, tomorrow wood.
Only today does the fire burn brightly.

Eskimo proverb

James Dickey

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

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

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