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Today and the Present

10/14/2019

 
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​“Nothing is worth more than this day.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
 
The Gift of a Day
 
Every day’s a perfect gift
     of time for us to use,
Hours waiting to be filled
     in any way we choose.
Each morning brings
     a quiet hope
That rises
     with the Sun.
Each evening brings
     the sweet content
That comes with work
     well done.
 
by Author Unknown
 
“Do something today that your future self will thank you for.” -Author Unknown
 
Today is your day!
     Your mountain is waiting,
          So . . . get on your way!
-Doctor Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel (1904 - 1991)): “Oh, the Places You’ll Go!” (1990)
 
“The living moment is everything.” -D. H. Lawrence (David Herbert Lawrence (1885 - 1930))
 
Garth: Do you know what today is?
Heath: No - what is it?
Garth: It is the day after yesterday!
 
“I held a moment in my hand, brilliant as a star, fragile as a flower, a tiny sliver of one hour. I dropped it carelessly, Ah! I didn’t know, I held opportunity.” -Hazel Lee (Hazel Crutcher Lee (1917 - 2006))
 
“What we do today, right now, will have an accumulated effect on all our tomorrows.” -Alexandra Stoddard (born 1941)
 
“Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness.” -May Sarton (pseudonym of Eleanore Marie Sarton (1912 - 1995))
 
“Remember what was. Anticipate what will be. But live in the moment that lies in between.” -Author Unknown
 
“Unless each day can be looked back upon by an individual as one in which he has had some fun, some joy, some real satisfaction, that day is a loss.” -Dwight D. Eisenhower (Dwight David ‘Ike’ Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)): as quoted in Louis Filler: “The President Speaks: From William McKinley to Lyndon B. Johnson” (1964)
 
“Act in the precious present.” -Author Unknown
 
“The clock is running. Make the most of today. Time waits for no man. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That’s why it is called the present.” -Alice Morse Earle (1851 - 1911): “Sun Dials and Roses of Yesterday: Garden Delights Which Are Here Displayed in Very Truth and Are Morever Regarded As Emblems” (1902)
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​“Let today be the start of something new.” -Author Unknown
 
“Ask yourself if what you are doing today is getting you closer to where you want to be tomorrow.” -Author Unknown
 
Today
 
Today is mine. It is unique.
Nobody in the world has one exactly like it.
It holds the sum of all my past experiences and all my future potentials.
I can fill it with joyous moments or ruin it with fruitless worry.
If painful recollections of the past come into my mind,
or frightening thoughts of the future, I can put them away.
They cannot spoil today for me.
 
by Author Unknown
 
“Today is a brand new day. My past does not define me. My future is mine to create.” -Author Unknown
 
“There is only one time that is important - now! It is the most important time because it is the only time that we have any power.” -Leo Tolstoy (Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828 - 1910))
 
“If not now, when will you begin living your life?” -Jack Borland
 
“The future depends on what we do in the present.” -Mohandas Karamchand ‘Mahatma’ Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
 
“On a day no different than the one now dawning, Leonardo drew the first strokes of the Mona Lisa, Shakespeare wrote the first words of Hamlet, Beethoven began work on his Ninth Symphony, and Einstein discovered the theory of relativity. What are you going to do today?” -Author Unknown
 
“If you haven’t found something strange during the day, it hasn’t been much of a day.” -John A. Wheeler (John Archibald Wheeler (1911 - 2008))
 
“Every day is a gift.” -Author Unknown
 
“The passing moment is all that we can be sure of; it is only common sense to extract its utmost value from it . . .” -W. Somerset Maugham (William Somerset Maugham (1874 -1965))
 
“Days are expensive. When you spend a day, you have one less day to spend. So make sure you spend each one wisely.” -Jim Rohn (Emanuel James ‘Jim’ Rohn (1930 - 2009))
 
“I think, what has this day brought me, and what have I given it?” -Henry Moore (1898 - 1986)
 
“This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.” -Author Unknown: “The Holy Bible” (King James Version, Cambridge Edition (1769)), ‘Psalms,’ Psalm 118, verse 24
 
Live in the Present
 
One day at a time
this is enough.
Do not look back
and grieve over the past
for it is gone;
and do not be troubled
about the future
for it has not yet come.
Live in the present
and make it so beautiful
that it will be worth
remembering!
 
by Author Unknown
 
“Make the most of today. Translate your good intentions into actual deeds.” -Grenville Kleiser (1868 - 1953)
 
“If you are going to do something, do it now. Tomorrow is too late.” -Pete Goss (born 1961)
 
“No day passeth, without something we wish not.” -Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734): “Gnomologia” (1732), number 3,558
 
“Never underestimate the value of a day.” -Author Unknown
 
“What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There’s quite a lot we don’t know about them.” -Melanie Benjamin (pseudonym of Melanie Hauser (born 1962))
 
“A year from now you may wish you had started today.” -Karen Lamb (born 1956), website www.karenlamb.com
 
“Make good use of today.” -Author Unknown
 
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Today

Mend a quarrel. Search out a forgotten friend. Dismiss suspicion and replace it with trust. Write a love letter. Share some treasure. Give a soft answer. Encourage youth. Manifest your loyalty in a word or deed.
 
Keep a promise. Find the time. Forego a grudge. Forgive an enemy. Listen. Apologize if you were wrong. Try to understand. Flout envy. Examine your demands on others. Think first of someone else. Appreciate, be kind, be gentle. Laugh a little more.
 
Deserve confidence. Take up arms against malice. Decry complacency. Express your gratitude. Worship your God. Gladden the heart of a child. Take pleasure in the beauty and wonder of the Earth. Speak your love. Speak it again. Speak it still again. Speak it still once again.
 
by Author Unknown
 
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“One today is worth two tomorrows.” -Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790): “The Way to Wealth” (1758)
 
“Today will never happen again. Don’t waste it with a false start or no start at all.” -Og Mandino (Augustine ‘Og’ Mandino II (1923 - 1996))
 
“One has to live in the present. Whatever is past is gone beyond recall; whatever is future remains beyond one’s reach, until it becomes present. Remembering the past and giving thought to the future are important, but only to the extent that they help one deal with the present.” -S. N. Goenka (Satya Narayan Goenka (1924 - 2013))
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​“Now is all there is.” -Author Unknown
 
“Day, noun: A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.” -Ambrose Bierce (Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (1842 - 1914))
 
“Just for today let us live this one day only, forgetting yesterday and tomorrow, and not trying to solve the whole problem of life at once.” -Joseph F. Newton (Joseph Fort Newton (1878 - 1949))
 
“No time like the present.” -Mary de la Rivière Manley (also known as Delarivier Manley (1663 - 1724))
 
“Today is a perfect day to just be happy.” -Author Unknown
 
“You will never have this day again, so make it count.” -Author Unknown
 
“As long as the day lasts, let’s give it all we’ve got.” -David O. McKay (David Oman McKay (1873 - 1970))
 
“One must never be in haste to end a day. There are too few of them in a lifetime.” -Author Unknown
 
“The past was. Tomorrow may be. Only today is.” -Sonya Friedman
 
“Our days are like identical suitcases, all the same size, but some can pack into them twice as much as others.” -Author Unknown
 
“Today . . . spend more time with people who bring out the best in you, not the stress in you.” -Author Unknown
 
“The only thing even in this world are the number of hours in a day. The difference in winning or losing is what you do with those hours.” -Woody Hayes (Wayne Woodrow ‘Woody’ Hayes (1913 - 1987))
 
“Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.” -Alice Walker (born 1944)
 
“Your future is created by what you do today, not tomorrow.” -Robert T. Kiyosaki (Robert Toru Kiyosaki (born 1947))
 
“Seize the day, trust as little as possible in tomorrow.” [English translation]
“Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.” [original Latin]
-Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65 B.C.E. - 8  B.C.E.)): “Odes” (23 B.C.E.), book 1, number 11, final line
 
“There is no such thing in anyone’s life as an unimportant day.” -Alexander Woollcott (Alexander Humphreys Woollcott (1887 - 1943))
 
“Is it today yet?” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
 
“Right now counts forever.” -R. C. Sproul (Robert Charles Sproul (1939 - 2017)): title of article in “Tabletalk” (May 1977) magazine
 
“Think that this day will never dawn again.” -Dante Alighieri (about 1265 - 1321)
 
“There are many fine things which you mean to do some day, under what you think will be more favorable circumstances. But the only time that is surely yours is the present, hence this is the time to speak the word of appreciation and sympathy, to do the generous deed, to forgive the fault of a thoughtless friend, to sacrifice self a little more for others. Today is the day in which to express your noblest qualities of mind and heart, to do at least one worthy thing which you have long postponed, and to use your God-given abilities for the enrichment of some less fortunate fellow traveler. Today you can make your life big, broad, significant, and worthwhile. The present is yours to do with it as you will.” -Grenville Kleiser (1868 - 1953): “Inspiration and Ideals: Thoughts for Every Day” (1918), ‘August Twenty-Eighth’
 
“Now is the only time anything happens.” -Sylvia Boorstein (born 1936)
 
“Whether it’s the best of times or the worst of times, it’s the only time we’ve got.” -Art Buchwald (1925 - 2007): as quoted in “The Journal of the Oklahoma State Medical Association” (1979)
 
“The man who waits until tomorrow, misses the opportunities of today.” -Author Unknown
 
“What day is it?” asked Pooh.
“It’s today,” squeaked Piglet. “My favorite day.”
-A. A. Milne (Alan Alexander Milne (1882 - 1956)): “Winnie the Pooh” (14 October 1926)
 
“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” -Annie Dillard (born 1945 as Meta Ann Doak): “The Writing Life” (1989)
 
“What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.” -Ralph Marston (Ralph S. Marston, Junior (born 1955))
 
“Every man’s life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.” -Marcus Aurelius (also known as Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (C.E. 121 - C.E. 180))
 
“There’s only now.” -Bill Murray (William James ‘Bill’ Murray (born in 1950))
 
This is MFOL! . . . encouraging you to go out today to make great memories . . .

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