How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

by Dale Carnegie

the best possible way to prepare for tomorrow is to concentrate with all your intelligence, all your enthusiasm, on doing today’s work superbly today. That is the only possible way you can prepare for the future.

‘Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means.’

live just till bedtime.

I found it wasn’t so hard to live only one day at a time. I learned to forget the yesterdays and to not think of the tomorrows.

‘Think,’ said Dante, ‘that this day will never dawn again.’ Life is slipping away with incredible speed.

Shut the iron doors on the past and the future. Live in Day-tight Compartments.

‘I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.’

‘Life is too short to be little.’

Henry Ford told me much the same thing. ‘When I can’t handle events,’ he said, ‘I let them handle themselves.’