Live for today. Multitudes of people have failed to live for today. . . . What they have had within their grasp today they have missed entirely, because only the future has intrigued them.
William Allen White
Related "As often as you eat this bread and drink this cup". TODAY Reasons... questions... what they have in common? - All get finded in the hard way. DEYTH BANGER Now they have a riddle. - Criminal Minds DEYTH BANGER Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for. VIKTOR E. FRANKL Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for. VICTOR FRANKL Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for. VIKTOR FRANKL Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for. VIKTOR E. FRANKL Some people today are wandering generalities instead of meaningful specifics because they have faile... IFEANYI ENOCH ONUOHA We aren't here today because of Michael Roberts. We're not here today because of what he had or didn... DAWN ANDERSON Live for today with your eyes on the future. THOMAS FLAJNIK - ANTICHIMERAPODAL We shouldn't just live for today; we should prepare for tomorrow. KENT CONRAD Dream as if you have forever. Live as if you only have today. JAMES DEAN If I were to live for tomorrow, I would have lived fullest for today. SANTOSH KALWAR If I always stuck up for what I had, I would have missed the most amazing things I have today. What ... TONY CURL Live your life today because there is no guarantee of tomorrow. Live your life tomorrow without any ... STEPHANIE ADAMS If today you don't have time for those who gave all their time for you yesterday then tomorrow they ... AMIT ABRAHAM You can't deal with being odd? ... Become like them... Become drug delear... DEYTH BANGER I congratulate Joe, William, and Christopher for their impressive achievements today. Every one of t... KATHLEEN BORDELON When you live today, being accountable for yesterday, today will be better because you would have ta... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Remember the past, plan for the future, but live for today, because yesterday is gone and tomorrow m... ANONYMOUS We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood. WILLIAM JAMES If today is all you have to live, what will you do? LAILAH GIFTY AKITA What Microsoft is announcing today is only a small portion of what they have planned in the future -... JAMIE RETTERATH People have to balance their consumption with their formation of their nest egg. They have to not sa... DON BLANDIN The goal is to allow our founders to better understand what is within their reach today while, at th... BART GREENBERG Just for today i live Clean,
Just for today i live Sober,
Today's way of living determines actions o... ARIEL S BRITO Today somebody is suffering, today somebody is in the street, today somebody is hungry. ... We have ... MOTHER TERESA Western countries in particular can today no longer be separated from Muslim societies, because they... ULRICH BECK Live your life today in the manner you would have wanted to live out yesterday. SCOTTIE SOMERS All the boys, they ran just ran tremendously today. Of the 10 boys that ran today, only three of the... CRAIG SNYDER We all have a darkness within us, it stems from our past. When we can forgive ourselves and not worr... DANIEL GILMAN Live in the future, today is just 24 hours OLUWASEUN VICTOR ADEBOYE Because I know you live on the hope of seeing a better tomorrow, unlike the skeptics who have nothin... NELY CAB Today is a most unusual day, because we have never lived it before; we will never live it again; it ... WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD Live for today for tomorrow never comes. UNKNOWN Have times really changed? Don't we today, as always, love our children and want them to live righte... THOMAS S. MONSON Just because you haven't got a home, doesn't make you homeless. and Just because you don't... ANTHONY T. HINCKS If you spend the day thinking about the regrets of yesterday and the
worries of tomorrow, then you h... ROBERT RAMSEY Here's the advice Sir William Osler gave the students at Yale: "Live neither in the past nor in the ... WILLIAM OSLER White Americans today don't know what in the world to do because when they put us behind them, that'... FANNIE LOU HAMER They have been caught today in the web of their lies. JACK THOMPSON Hope for tomorrow makes you to live today. KOWSALAPATHY As for the future hopefully he will carry on but today is the day, let's live it up. ED DUNLOP Most people exist because nobody taught them to LIVE. They live unhappy lives because nobody told th... RVM We must ignore the morrow and live for today, because tomorrow might never come. PHILIP T. M. To live rich tomorrow, you must live rich today. Today is yesterday's tomorrow. LORRIN L. LEE Our mothers and fathers want change. They worked all of their lives, but today live in destitution. VIKTOR YUSHCHENKO Women live lives of continual apology. They are born and raised to take the blame for other people... GERMAINE GREER Be careful how you live your life today because your today will one day be your past and the devil w... WISDOM ATTAH ELORM Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. SOURCE UNKNOWN Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. ANON. Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. ALBERT EINSTEIN Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. ANONYMOUS Learn from yesterday, Live for today, Plan for tomorrow. JOHN BANKSON Children are our future. We teach them today; what will they do tomorrow? TANYA R. LIVERMAN And understand that scarce spectrum is used today for example for cell phone operators, they have to... ROBERT MCCHESNEY Our forefathers gave their lives for peace and freedom. Our generation has the responsibility to tre... CHEN HONG There is no pain and there are no sorrows. They no longer have permission to live in my today or my ... STEVEN CUOCO Live for your days, not for today; because for today its common for every day for ever day that is f... EPHDAN Forget about the Past; Don't Worry about the Future; Live Today!-RVM RVM What Napster said today, which they have essentially have been denying for the last year, was that t... HILLARY ROSEN They have scoured the countryside looking for pieces for the engine and wings and they have slowly b... MICHAEL WHITE Young people today are so starved for role models for people who live their lives according to spiri... HOWARD MILLER Too late is tomorrow's life; live for today. MARTIAL We must ignore the morrow and live for today. PHILIP T. M. I really like the balance we had today. We played nine guys for a lot of minutes and they all perfor... JOHN CALIPARI I love those who do not know how to live for today. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Our fear of losing what we have today is prohibiting us from doing what is best for kids in the futu... GLENN GROVE What treaty have the Sioux made with the white man that we have broken? Not one. What treaty have th... SITTING BULL Plum Creek totally failed to listen to Maine people. What we have today is the same development in e... CATHERINE JOHNSON They didn't have college scholarships for women. Had they done that at the time, I may have stayed o... DEBBIE MEYER It could never be a correct justification that, because the whites oppressed us yesterday when they ... ROBERT MUGABE It is a fact that all women contribute more to marriage than men; for the most part they have to cha... AGNES MACPHAIL We live in the last days, in the cold hearted and self centred world where people like you for what ... EUGINIA HERLIHY There is only one you on the globe today. You have been built to inspire and designed to dazzle. Liv... IFEANYI ENOCH ONUOHA White Americans today don't know what in the world to do because when they put us behind them, t... FANNIE LOU HAMER Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don't rent them out to to... JERRY SPINELLI Some of my best friends here in New York have pasts I have a hard time reconciling with the people I... DEREK BLASBERG Live today for tomorrow it will all be history. PROVERB I have a dream, that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be ju... MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. I have seen the Raiders develop into what they are today. JIM OTTO We should enjoy every minute we live today because who knows if we will have a chance to do so tomor... ERALDO BANOVAC People adjust their behavior to fit the society they live in. They integrate because they have to. B... SANDRA BROWN You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today; for today is the sure pre... HARRIET MARTINEAU You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today; for today is the sure pre... HARRIET MARTINEAU The only limits for tomorrow are the doubts we have today. PITTACUS LORE Today, Democrats not only have the White House; they have the Senate too. So we have to be realistic... MITCH MCCONNELL The biggest thing I've learned is that you only have one chance. You only have today to live-but you... BERT MCCRACKEN But look what the Church has done to Jesus during the last two thousand years. What they have made ... CARSON MCCULLERS You had better live your best, think your best and do your best today...for today will soon be tomor... JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE A great way to LIVE is to BE, DO, and HAVE all the things you really, really, really want before you... LORRIN L. LEE Spielberg made movies the way they are today. Our list is aimed at naming the people who influenced ... WALTER ISAACSON Five years ago, [these companies] wouldn't have been sponsoring events. Today, they are doing quite ... LANCE HELGESON "The devil made me do it" I have never made one of them do anything. They live their own lives. I do... NEIL GAIMAN Children are not the people of tomorrow, but are people of today. They have a right to be taken seri... JANUSZ KORCZAK We can enable customers to provide more services within the same space, power and cooling that they ... FRED KOHOUT Scientists announced today that they have discovered a cure for apathy. However, they claim no one h... GEORGE CARLIN Virtuous people are simply those who have not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a ve... ISADORA DUNCAN Virtuous people are simply those who have not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vege... ISADORA DUNCAN That's my philosophy exactly. Live today, because you don't know what tomorrow is going to bring. BETTY ARNOLD
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