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Let us live up to the fulness of our possibilities each day. Man has only one day of life—to-day.
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“Let us live up to the fulness of our possibilities each day. Man has only one day of life—to-day.”

William George Jordan

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The Power of Truth: Individual Problems and Possibilities
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1902
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Jordan makes development immediate: today is the only day in which ability, responsibility and intention can actually be converted into conduct.

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The Power of Truth, “People Who Live in Air-Castles.” The line is a present-action argument within conduct-of-life writing, not a literal denial of memory, planning or future obligations.

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“the true joy of existence comes from living to one's highest.”

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The purpose of life is unquestionably unfoldment, growth, advancement
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“The purpose of life is unquestionably unfoldment, growth, advancement”

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Trine states his view of purpose directly: life should continue to develop rather than settle into mental or moral stagnation.

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