SALUTATION TO THE DAWN

Look to this day!
For it is life, the very life of life,
In its brief course
Lie all the truths and realities
of your existence:
The bliss of growth
The glory of action
The splendor of beauty,
For yesterday is but a dream
And tomorrow only a vision,
But today well lived
makes every yesterday
a dream of happiness
And every tomorrow a vision of hope.
Look well, therefore, to this day!

Such is the salutation of the dawn.

by Kalidasa, Indian dramatist (Circa 450)

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Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.

Wayne Dyer

There exists only the present instant... a Now which always and without end is new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence.

Meister Eckhart (1260-1326)

There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day.

Alexander Woollcott (1887-1943)

Do you feel that you have a future moment to get to that is more important than living Now? Since the future never arrives, except as the present, it is a dysfunctional way to live.
It generates a constant undercurrent of unease, tension, and discontent. It does not honor life, which is Now.

Eckhart Tolle

It is your day. You are alive in it. It is an unfolding opportunity to express and to grow. Of all persons in all ages, no one has more reason for thanksgiving than you.

Eric Butterworth

The world is new to us every morning - this is God's gift; and every man should believe he is reborn each day.

the Baal Shem Tov -- Rabbi Israel ben Eliezer (1698-1760)

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.
Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt crept in. Forget them as soon as you can, tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1802-1883)

Believe that each day that shines on you is your last. Seize the day. (Carpe Diem!)

Horace (65-8 BC)

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