We can no more enjoy life by hoping for a future result than we can enjoy music by waiting for the final note.

You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.

Many people say "my life stinks". Well, your life will stink if you spend today thinking about tomorrow.

One reason we are so harried and hurried is that we make yesterday and tomorrow our business, when all that legitimately concerns us is today. If we really have too much to do, there are some items on the agenda which God did not put there. Let us submit the list to Him and ask Him to indicate which items we must delete. There is always time to do the will of God. If we are too busy to do that, we are too busy.

It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.

Expectations destroy our peace of mind. They are future disappointments, planned out in advance.

Replace worry with prayer. Make the decision to pray whenever you catch yourself worrying.

In young, childish, ignorant souls there is constantly this blind trust in some unshapen chance: it is as hard to a boy or girl to believe that a great wretchedness will actually befall them as to believe that they will die.

Ah," said Dolly, with soothing gravity, "it's like the night and the morning, and the sleeping and the waking, and the rain and the harvest — one goes and the other comes, and we know nothing how nor where. We may strive and scrat and fend, but it's little we can do arter all — the big things come and go wi' no striving o' our'n — they do, that they do;

That passed the time. It would have passed in any case. Yes, but not so rapidly.

I knew it would soon be the end, so I played the part, you know, the part of how shall I say, I dont know.

Catch, then, oh catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies! Life's a short summer, man a flower; He dies — alas! how soon he dies!