"Science is a collection of useful recipes" - [Valery, French philosopher]
"Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand" - [Thomas Carlisle].
"Now each of you is a much more marvellous organisation than the great liner, and bound on a longer voyage. What I urge is that you so learn to control the machinery as to live with day tight compartments as the most certain way to ensure safety on the voyage. Get on the bridge, and see that at least the great bulkheads are in working order. Touch a button and hear, at every level of your life, the iron doors shutting out the past - the dead yesterdays. Touch another and shut off, with a metal curtain, the Future - the unborn tomorrows. Then you are safe - safe for today. Shut off the past. Let the dead past bury its dead. Shut out the yesterdays, which have lighted fools to dusty death. The load of tomorrow, added to that of yesterday, carried today, makes the strongest falter. Shut off the future as tightly as the past. The future is today. There is no tomorrow. The day of man's salvation is now. Waste of energy, mental distress, nervous worries, dog thesteps of a man who is anxious about the future. Shut close, then, the great for and aft bulkheads, and prepare to cultivate the habit of life of day-tight compartments." - [Sir William Osler, Regius Professor of Medicine, Oxford].
"Take therefore no thought for the morrow; for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient until the day is the evil thereof." - [The Lord Jesus Christ].
"Keep thou my feet; I do not ask to see
The distant scenes, one step enough for me." - [hymn].
"Think of your life as an hourglass. You know there are thousands of grains of sand in the top of the hourglass; and they all pass slowly and evenly through the narrow neck in the middle. Nothing you or I could do would make more than one grain of sand pass through this narrow neck without impairing the hourglass. You and I and everyone else are like this hourglass. When we start in the morning, there are hundreds of tasks which we feel that we must accomplish that day, but if we do not take them one at a time and let them pass through the day slowly and evenly, as do the grains of sand passing through the narrow neck of the hourglass, then we are bound to break our own physical or mental structure." - [Army Doctor, Second World War].
"Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means." - [Robert Louis Stevenson].
"Happy the man, and happy he alone,
He who can call today his own:
He who, secure within, can say:
Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have liv'd today." - [Horace, Roman poet, 30 B.C.]
"Life, we learn too late, is in the living,
in the tissue of every day and hour." - [unknown]
Look for this day!
For it is life, the very life of life.
In its brief course,
Lie all the verities and realities of your existence:
The bliss of growth
The glory of action
The splendour of achievement,
For yesterday is but a dream
And tomorrow is only a vision,
But today well lived makes yesterday a dream of happiness
And every tomorrow a vision of hope,
Look well, therefore, to this day!
Such is the salutation to the dawn."
- [Kalidasa, Indian dramatist].
"This is the day the Lord hath made;
we will rejoice and be glad in it." - [Psalm 118]
"True peace of mind comes from accepting the worst." [Lin Yutang, Chinese philosopher].
"I keep six honest serving-men
(they taught me all I know)
Their names are What and Why and When,
And How and Where and Who." - [Rudyard Kipling].
"The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not." - [George Bernard Shaw].
"I'm too busy! I have no time for worry." - [Winston Churchill].
"De minimis non curat lex
(The law does not concern itself with trifles)"
- [A latin maxim as applied in English law].
EVERY DAY IS A NEW LIFE TO A WISE MAN.
TODAY IS A NEW LIFE!
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