I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow.
Interpretation
Embrace the present and avoid worrying about future problems.
This quote by Dorothea Dix emphasizes the importance of living in the present and not allowing anxieties about the future to overshadow our daily experiences. It encourages individuals to face each day as it arrives, fostering a mindset that prioritizes mindfulness and acceptance over fear and dread of what lies ahead.
In practice
In a speech about mental health, one could cite this quote to encourage living in the moment.
Steady, firm, and kind government of prisoners is the truest humanity and the best exercise of duty. It is with convicts as with children: unseasonable indulgence, indiscreetly granted, leads to mischiefs which we may deplore but cannot repair.
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I shall be well enough when I get to Kentucky or Alabama. The tonic I need is the tonic of opposition. That always sets me on my feet.
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With care and patience, people may accomplish things which, to an indolent person, would appear impossible.
My wish is to be known only thru my work.
Nobody will protect you from your suffering. You can't cry it away or eat it away or starve it away or walk it away or punch it away or even therapy it away. It's just there, and you have to survive it. You have to endure it. You have to live through it and love it and move on and be better for it and run as far as you can in the direction of your best and happiest dreams across the bridge that was built by your own desire to heal.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
We all have this place in us, a place of strength, harmony and wisdom, but most of the time we don't live there How can we course-correct faster? How can we encourage each other to live in that place more?
I'm not better than anyone, and I'm not trying to convince people to live by my standards of what's right. I'm trying to convince them to live by their own.
I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.
We all make mistakes, we all have fears, and we all have weaknesses. Behind all that is our essential self. When our essential self has made contact with another, the light is dazzling and would fill the universe. The challenge of enchantment is to remain faithful to that light, to believe in it when it is not so apparent. Then that light becomes an incandescent glow and it wraps itself around everything.
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