Quotes on Live For Today

The most extraordinary thing about the oyster is this. Irritations set into his shell. He does not like them. But when he cannot get ride of them, he uses the irritation to do the loveliest thing an oyster ever has a chance to do. If there are irritations in our lives today, there is only one prescription: make a pearl. It may have to be a pearl of patience, but anyhow, make a pearl. And it takes faith and I love to do it.

Since you are the one who has to live with your choices, be sure they are your own.

You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.

We live today not in the digital, not in the physical, but in the kind of minestrone that our mind makes of the two.

Live now, believe me, wait not till tomorrow; Gather the roses of life today.

Enjoy yourself, drink, call the life you live today your own; but only that, the rest belongs to chance.

The most pernicious aspect of procrastination is that it can become a habit. We don't just put off our lives today; we put them off till our deathbed. Never forget: This very moment, we can change our lives. There never was a moment, and never will be, when we are without the power to alter our destiny. This second we can turn the tables on Resistance. This second, we can sit down and do our work.

Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.