All RALPH WALDO EMERSON Quotes about “Today”

“Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.”
“I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.”
“We do not know today whether we are busy or idle. In times when we thought ourselves indolent, we have afterwards discovered that much was accomplished, and much was begun in us.”
“Today is a king in disguise.”
“Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today. Let us treat men and women well; treat them as if they were real; perhaps they are.”
“The roses under my window make no reference to former roses or better ones; they are what they are; they exist with God today. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence.”
“The sun shines today also.”
“We are not free to use today, or to promise tomorrow, because we are already mortgaged to yesterday.”
“Five minutes of today are worth as much to me, as five minutes in the next millennium. Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today.”
“Wisdom will never let us stand with any man on an unfriendly footing. We refuse sympathy and intimacy with people, as if we waited for some better sympathy or intimacy to come. But whence and when: Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live.”

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