“So let’s be content to live the only time we can possibly live: from now until bedtime. “Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, from now until nightfall,” wrote Robert Louis Stevenson. “Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this all that life really means.” ~ Dale Carnegie from How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
That’s Chapter 1 in a nutshell. “Live in “Day Tight Compartments.” Carnegie’s a bit of a quote machine like me and goes from Jesus to Montaigne and Dante to Carlyle.
Jesus: “Have no anxiety for the tomorrow.”
Montaigne: “My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.”
Dante: “Think that this day will never dawn again.”
Carlyle: “Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.”
Horace: “Happy the man, and happy he alone, | He, who can call to-day his own: | He who, secure within can say: | “To-morrow, do they worst, for I have liv’d today.”
The Big Idea: “Shut the iron doors on the past and the future. Live in Day-tight compartments.”
And ask yourself these questions:
GREAT questions to reflect on. (btw: the answer to #5 is: TODAY! :)
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