Just For One Day
We can do anything for one day. So, just for today
let us be unafraid of life, unafraid of death, which
is the shadow of life; unafraid to be happy, to enjoy
the beautiful, to believe the best. Just for today,
let us live one day only, forgetting yesterday and
tomorrow and not trying to solve the whole problem
of life at once.
Lincoln said that people are just as happy as they
make up their minds to be. We can adjust ourselves to
what is - our family, our business, our opportunities.
To try to make the world over to suit us is a large
order. If we cannot have what we like, we can like
what we have.
So, just for today, let us be agreeable, responsiive,
cheerful, charitable; be our best, dress our best, walk
softly, praise people for what they do, not criticize
them for what they cannot do. And when we find fault,
let us forgive it and forget.
~Joseph Fort Newton~
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