My children have the first stanza of this poem memorized because I say it so often and have often written it on our white board at home. It is as much a reminder for me as it is for them. These are beautiful words to live by.
Live fully and deliberately, my friends!
“Write it on your heart
that every day is the best day in the year.
He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day
who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.
Finish every day and be done with it.
You have done what you could.
Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt crept in.
Forget them as soon as you can, tomorrow is a new day;
begin it well and serenely, with too high a spirit
to be cumbered with your old nonsense.
This new day is too dear,
with its hopes and invitations,
to waste a moment on the yesterdays.”
―Ralph Waldo Emerson, Collected Poems and Translations
What is your favorite quote about beginning anew?
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