the following is a typed selections from
"How To Stop Worrying And Start Living",
by Dale Carnegie
"Every day is a new life to a wise man."
Each morning I said to myself, "Today is a new life."
I can live one day at a time -- and that "Every day is a new life to a wise man."
Roman poet Horace.
Happy the man, and happy he alone,
He, who can call to-day his own:
He who, secure within, can say:
"To-morrow, do thy worst, for I have liv'd to-day."
the Greek philosopher Heraclitus told his students that "everything changes except the low of change." He said, "You can not step in the the same river twice." The river changes every second; and so does the man who stepped in it. Life is a ceaseless change.
Lowell Thomas.
Psalm CXVIII (118), Bible
This is the day which the Lord hath made;
we will rejoice and be glad in it.
John Ruskin had on his desk a simple piece of stone on which was carved one word:
TODAY.
a poem that Sir William Osler always kept on his desk -- a poem written by the famous dramatist, Kalidasa:
SALUTATION TO THE DAWN
Look to this day!
For it is life, the very life of life.
In its brief course
Lies all the verities and realities of your existence:
The bliss of growth
The glory of action
The splendor 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.
1. Shut the iron doors on the past and the future. Live in Day-tight compartments.
Kālidāsa (Sanskrit: कालिदास, "Servant of Kali"; 4th–5th century CE) was a Classical Sanskrit author who is often considered ancient India's greatest poet and playwright.[1][2] His plays and poetry are primarily based on Hindu Puranas and philosophy. His surviving works consist of three plays, two epic poems and two shorter poems.
Much about his life is unknown except what can be inferred from his poetry and plays.[3] His works cannot be dated with precision, but they were most likely authored before the 5th century CE during the Gupta era.
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