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 splendour of achievement
are but experiences of time.
For yesterday is but a dream
and tomorrow is only a vision;
but today 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 to the ever-new dawn!
- Kalidasa, Indian poet and dramatist