Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn! Look to this Day! For it is Life, the very Life of Life. In its brief course lie all the Verities and Realities of your Existence. The Bliss of Growth, The Glory of Action, The Splendor of Beauty; For Yesterday is but a Dream, And To-morrow is only a Vision; But To-day well lived makes Every Yesterday a Dream of Happiness, And every Tomorrow a Vision of Hope. Look well therefore to this Day! Such is the Salutation of the Dawn!
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of living in the present and cherishing each day.
Kalidasa's quote highlights that each day holds the essence of our lives, encapsulating our truths and experiences. It urges us to appreciate the present moment, as yesterday is merely a memory and tomorrow remains uncertain. By living fully today, we create joyful memories of the past and hopeful visions for the future.
In practice
In a motivational speech to inspire people to focus on their current efforts and achievements.
Many people find it easy to imagine unseen webs of malevolent conspiracy in the world, and they are not always wrong. But there is also an innocence that conspires to hold humanity together, and it is made of people who can never fully know the good that they have done.
Nothing is so false as human life, nothing so treacherous. God knows no one would have accepted it as a gift, if it had not been given without our knowledge.
There is the strange power we have of changing facts by the force of the imagination.
When we look for things there is nothing but mind, and when we look for mind there is nothing but things.
No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.
Sometimes the Warrior feels as if he were living two lives at once.
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