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today - today
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How we spend our days is,
of course, how we spend
our lives.
Annie Dillard |
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I have always been delighted at the prospect of
a new
day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps
a bit of magic waiting
somewhere behind the morning.
J.B. Priestley |
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There is
only one way really to live, and that is to start out every morning
with a firm resolution to get the most out of that day, to live it to the
full.
No matter what happens or does not happen, what comes or does not come,
resolve that you will extract from every experience of the day something
good,
something that will make you wiser and show you how to make fewer mistakes
tomorrow. Say to yourself, "This day I begin a new life.
I will forget everything
in the past that caused me pain, grief, or disgrace."
Orison Swett Marden
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Most mornings when I awake, I am pleasantly
surprised to find
I’m still alive.
On occasion I have been known to wake up
mean and irritable, but
even then I can choose not to stay
that way.
Yesterday is gone, and tomorrow may not come.
Today is the only slot of time I really have. What a shame to blow it.
I want to make today the very best possible. . . . Before I
crawl
out of bed, I thank the Lord for another day and ask
for strength.
Maybe I’m to clean the house, or work at
the office, or talk with
a friend over lunch. The
tasks
aren’t the issue; my attitude is.
Marabel Morgan
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We can fill each day with grasping or with
giving;
with griping or with gratitude.
William Arthur Ward |
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When one cannot be
sure that there are many
days
left, each single day
becomes as important
as a year, and one does
not
waste an hour
in wishing that the hours
were longer, but simply
fills it,
like
a smaller cup,
as high as it will go
without spilling over.
Natalie Kusz
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As
yesterday is history, and tomorrow may never come,
I have resolved from this day on, I will do all the business
I can honestly, have all the fun I can reasonably, do all
the good I can willingly, and save my digestion
by thinking pleasantly.
Robert
Louis Stevenson |
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I think, what has this day brought me,
and what
have I given it?
Henry Moore |
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today need conform to anything of yesterday.
Jesse Jennings |
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Today
is a new day. You will get out of it just what you put into
it.
Mary
Pickford |
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Light
tomorrow with today.
Elizabeth
Browning |
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We can stop waiting for life to become perfect
and start working
with what we’ve got to make it as satisfying as we
can. We can accept,
bless,
give thanks, and get going. Today,
we can begin to call forth the
riches from our everyday life.
Procrastination has robbed us of too
many precious opportunities.
Call a friend for lunch, begin to read
or even write that novel,
organize your papers. Try a
new recipe for
dinner, smile at everyone you meet, sit and dream before a
blazing fire,
pick up your needlepoint again, act as if you’re grateful
to be alive,
scatter joy. Think
of one thing that would give you a genuine
moment of pleasure today and do
it.
Sarah Ban Breathnach |
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To awaken each morning with a smile brightening
my face; to greet
the day with reverence for the opportunities it
contains; to approach
my work with a clean mind; to hold ever before me,
even in the
doing of little things, the Ultimate Purpose toward which I am
working;
to meet men and women with laughter on my lips and love in my
heart;
to be gentle, kind, and courteous through all the hours; to
approach
the night with weariness that ever woos sleep and the joy that
comes
from work well done—this is how I desire to waste wisely my days.
Thomas Dekker |
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No
matter what looms ahead, you can eat today, enjoy the
sunlight today, mix good cheer with friends today;
enjoy it and bless God for it. Do not look back
on happiness--nor dream of it in the future.
Henry
Ward Beecher
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Sufficient it is to know
that the way we lived our yesterday
has determined for us our today. And, again, when the
morning with its fresh beginning comes, all tomorrows should
be tomorrows, with which we have nothing to do. Sufficient
to know that the way we live our today determines our tomorrow.
Ralph Waldo Trine |
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Let's
concentrate on today; it's all we have. Within this day,
we have many choices and a rich texture of experience. We
can't control the outcome; the moment is within our grasp.
We must seize it, savor it, learn from it; it is life itself.
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You've
been given today. Will you use it or will you miss out
on today's wonder because you're too preoccupied with
holding on to things that are beyond your control?
Melody
Beattie |
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How many of us get up in the morning feeling truly
grateful for the day? Most of us wish we could turn the
clock back and keep sleeping. The truth is, when you are
happy to wake up and are grateful for the day, your life does
change.
Each new day is an opportunity to pray for your loved
ones and to act in a loving manner towards them. I start out
by saying my prayer of thanks and asking for guidance and help
from all available resources. I find I am always grateful
for the new day, no matter how hard it is or will be, because I
know I am not ready for my days to end. After all, the
alternative to waking up and facing another difficult day is
death. For all I know, after death the unenlightened may be
sent back to wake up to the glory of the new day and its
opportunities.
I want to experience more days and the difficulties
and opportunities they will bring. I want the chance to test
myself. Maybe this makes me a glutton for punishment, but if
I can help one living thing get through the day and not hurt
anyone else in the process, I go to sleep thankful for the time I
have been given and eager to awaken to tomorrow.
Bernie
Siegel |
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The
posture we take while
performing our tasks today,
and the attitude we project
toward those who cross our
path, will emphatically
influence what the day brings.
No one else can decide for
any of us what we'll feel or
think about the day. We
have the power to be as
content or as discontent
as we make up
our minds to be.
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Every
morning, when we wake up, we have twenty-four brand-new
hours to live. What a precious gift! We have the capacity to
live in a way
that these twenty-four hours will bring peace, joy, and happiness to
ourselves and others.
Thich
Nhat Hanh |
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Always begin anew with the day, much as nature does;
it is one of the sensible things that nature does.
George E. Woodberry
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Each
day we can wake up and choose to see life as a gift and to be
fully present in that day. We cannot always control the outcome,
but we can control our reactions. Each day we can bring all we have
to that day, choosing to live it fully, seeing it as a great gift.
Each day
we can train our mind not to obsess on regret, nor to worry for tomorrow
but to be in this present moment. Each day we can be grateful for
what has happened that day. And we can choose not to judge our lives
from moment to moment (am I happy, successful, unhappy,
a failure, good, bad) but simply to live our life.
John
Izzo
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Happy
the people, and happy they alone, who can call today their own;
They who are secure within can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have
lived today.
John
Dryden
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One of the illusions of life
is that the present hour is not the decisive hour.
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year.
Ralph
Waldo Emerson
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As
soon as I open my eyes I see it--a bright new day has dawned. The
best thing about this gift is that I get to make it whatever I choose.
I begin with gratitude, giving thanks for my life, my breath and the
possibilities of a new beginning. I go about my activities with
enthusiasm,
noticing love and beauty and laughter. If a conflict arises, I bring
what I choose to the situation. I add compassion, forgiveness and
understanding. Filled with gratitude for the joy of being alive, I
conclude my day with prayer and meditation. I close my eyes and
I am restored by a night of peaceful rest.
unattributed (The
Daily Word)
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The first hour of waking is the rudder that guides the whole day.
Henry Ward
Beecher
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If we fill
our hours with regrets of yesterday and with the
worries of tomorrow, we have no today in which to be thankful.
unattributed
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Life
is slipping away with incredible speed. We are racing through space
at the rate of nineteen miles every second. Today is our most
precious
possession. It is our only sure possession.
Dale Carnegie
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To-Day
With every rising of the sun
Think of your life as just begun.
The past has shrived and
buried deep
All yesterdays; there let them sleep,
Nor seek to summon back one
ghost
Of that innumerable host.
Concern yourself with but
to-day;
Woo it and teach it to obey
Your wish and will.
Since time began
To-day has been the friend of man.
But in his blindness and his
sorrow
He looks to yesterday and to-morrow.
You and to-day! a soul sublime
And the great pregnant hour of time.
With God between to bind the twain!
Go forth, I say--attain, attain.
With God between to bind the twain!
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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If I could only
remember that the days were not bricks to be laid row on row,
to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace,
but only food for the fires of the heart.
Edmund Wilson
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This, I thought, is how
great visionaries and poets see everything--
as if for the first time. Each morning they see a new world before
their eyes; they do not really see it, they create it.
Nikos Kazantzakis
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