Today - Quotes
Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn`t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I`m going to be happy in it.
Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.
Real love is to offer your life at the feet of another, and that`s what people today are incapable of.
The ship of my life may or may not be sailing on calm and amiable seas. The challenging days of my existence may or may not be bright and promising. Stormy or sunny days, glorious or lonely nights, I maintain an attitude of gratitude. If I insist on being pessimistic, there is always tomorrow. Today I am blessed.
To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
One of the biggest problems with the world today is that we have large groups of people who will accept whatever they hear on the grapevine, just because it suits their worldview - not because it is actually true or because they have evidence to support it.
If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.
Every living thing is, from the cosmic perspective, incredibly lucky simply to be alive. Most, 90 percent and more, of all the organisms that have ever lived have died without viable offspring, but not a single one of your ancestors, going back to the dawn of life on Earth, suffered that normal misfortune. You spring from an unbroken line of winners going back millions of generations, and those winners were, in every generation, the luckiest of the lucky, one out of a thousand or even a million. So however unlucky you may be on some occasion today, your presence on the planet testifies to the role luck has played in your past.
This today of yours is the precious tomorrow of someone who passed away yesterday.
Today, St Valentine's Day, is not so much a celebration of love, as of chocolate, and St Valentine's real place, in our pre-millennial hagiography, is as the patron saint of chocolate.
Today I overheard an American teenager comparing her deprivation to that of our children, because her parents would only buy her a used car. There are none so impoverished as those who do not acknowledge the abundance of their lives.
- Do you think I`m wonderful? - she asked him one day as they leaned against the trunk of a petrified maple.
- No - he said.
- Why?
- Because so many girls are wonderful. I imagine hundreds of men have called their loves wonderful today, and it`s only noon. You couldn`t be something that hundreds of others are.
For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: `If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?` And whenever the answer has been `No` for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.