You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.
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Yesterday is history. To...
Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present.
Yesterday is history. Tomorrow...
Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And Today? Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present.
Would you keep a chive on your...
Would you keep a chive on your tooth just because you enjoyed last night's potato?
With the past, I have nothing ...
With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
Why be saddled with this thing...
Why be saddled with this thing called life expectancy? Of what relevance to an individual is such a statistic? Am I to concern myself with an allotment of days I never had and was never promised? Must I check off each day of my life as if I am subtracting from this imaginary hoard? No, on the contrary, I will add each day of my life to my treasure of days lived. And with each day, my treasure will grow, not diminish.
When one door closes another d...
When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.
When I am anxious it is becaus...
When I am anxious it is because I am living in the future. When I am depressed it is because I am living in the past.
We seem to be going through a ...
We seem to be going through a period of nostalgia, and everyone seems to think yesterday was better than today. I don't think it was, and I would advise you not to wait ten years before admitting today was great. If you're hung up on nostalgia, pretend today is yesterday and just go out and have one hell of a time.
We can easily manage if we wil...
We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.
We are only born once - twice ...
We are only born once - twice is not allowed - and it is necessary that we shall be no more, for all eternity; and yet you, who are not master of tomorrow, you keep on putting off your joy? Yet life is vainly consumed in these delays, and each of us does this without ever having known peace.
Trust no future, howe'er pleas...
Trust no future, howe'er pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act, - act in the living Present! Heart within and God o'erhead.
Today is the greatest Day I've...
Today is the greatest Day I've ever known Can't live for tomorrow, Tomorrow's much too long...
The other day a man asked me w...
The other day a man asked me what I thought was the best time of life. "Why," I answered without a thought, "now."
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