THE VALUE OF EACH DAY AND MOMENT

1. “Let's make the most of this beautiful day!” -– Mister Rogers
2. "When shall we live, if not now?" -- Seneca
3. "Seize the day! Make your lives extraordinary!" - Mr. Keating in Dead Poets' Society
4. "In the external scheme of things, this evening is as brief as the twinkling of an eye yet such twinkling is what eternity is made of." -- Fred Rogers, childrens' television host, in a speech
5. "Waking up this morning I smile Twenty-four brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment And to look at all beings with eyes of compassion." -- Thich Nhat Hanh
6. "Today always comes before tomorrow." -- Botswani proverb
7. "Live now. Make now always. The most precious time. Now will never come again." -- Captain Jean-Luc Picard
8. "Seize from every moment its unique novelty." -- Andre Gide
9. "Fate keeps on happening." -- Anita Loos
10. "When you stop comparing what is right here and now with what you wish it were, you can begin to enjoy what is." -- Cheri Huber
11. "If only you could sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person." -- Fred Rogers, children's television host
12. "My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment." -- Oprah Winfrey
13. "Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life...therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated. Thus, everyone's task is as unique as his specific opportunity to implement it." -- Victor Frankl
14. "Do something every day that you don't want to. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain." -- Mark Twain
15. "There is enough time. I am discovering that I have exactly the right number of hours and minutes and seconds to accomplish and do everything that I need to do in my lifetime." -- Claire Cloninger
16. “How we spend our days is how we spend our lives.” -- Annie Dillard
17. “In life, there are no ordinary moments. Most of us never really recognize the most significant moments of our lives when they’re happening.” -- William and Kathleen Magee
18. “God works in moments.” -- Old French saying
19. "How wonderful it is that nobody needs to wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." -- Anne Frank
20. "I never wear a watch because I always know it's now and now is when you should do it." -- SF 49ers Coach Steve Mariucci
21. "I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow." -- Dorothy Dix, journalist
22. "My whole life I have been complaining that my work was constantly interrupted, until I discovered that my interruptions were my work...What if our interruptions are in fact our opportunities, if they are challenges to an inner response by which growth takes place and through which we come to the fullness of being? What if the events of our history are molding us as a sculptor molds his clay, and if it is only in a careful obedience to these molding hands that we can discover our real vocation? " -- Henri Nouwen
23. "What an interesting life I had! And how I wished I had discovered it sooner!" -- Colette, French writer
24. "When the most important things in our life happen, we quite often don't know, at the moment, what is going on." - C.S. Lewis
25. "The best things happen when you least expect them to." -- magnet at my favorite dollar store
26. “We do not remember days...we remember moments.” –- Cesare Pavese
27. “When the most important things in life happen, we quite often do not know, at the moment, what is going on.” –- C.S. Lewis
28. “You do not notice change when it is before you.” -- Colette
29. “Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment – the moment is when a man finds out once and for all who he is.” -– Jorge Luis Borges
30. "Enter each day with the expectation tat the happenings of the day may contain a clandestine message addressed to you personally. Expect omens, epiphanies, casual blessings, and teachers who unknowingly speak to your condition." -- Sanikeen (d'oh! I can't read my writing)
31. “Be glad you had the moment.” -– Steve Shagan
32. “Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good; try to use ordinary situations.” – Jean Paul Richter
33. “If I were to live again, I should want it as it were. I would only open my eyes a little more.” – Jules Renard *** 1.
34. "A little consideration, a little thought for others, makes all the difference." -- Eeyore the Donkey