This is a very simple scrapbook page that I made years ago before I knew what I was doing. LOL! But the message is the important part, so I plan to keep it like it is.
Imagine there is a bank that credits your account each morning with $86,400. It carries over no balance from day to day. Every evening it deletes whatever part of the balance you failed to use during the day. What would you do? Draw out every cent, of course!!!
Each of us has such a bank. It's name is TIME. Every morning, it credits you with 86,400 seconds. Every night it writes off, as lost, whatever of this you have failed to invest to good purpose. It carries over no balance. It allows no overdraft. Each day it opens a new account for you. Each night it burns the remains of the day. If you fail to use the day's deposits, the loss is yours. There is no going back. There is no drawing from tomorrow. You must live in the present on today's deposits. Invest it so as to get from it the utmost in health, happiness, and success! The clock is running. Make the most of today.
To realize the value of one year,
ask a student who failed a grade.
To realize the value of one month,
ask a mother who gave birth to a premature baby.
To realize the value of one hour,
ask the editor of a weekly newspaper.
To realize the value of one hour,
ask the lovers who are waiting to meet.
To realize the value of one minutes,
ask a person who missed the train.
To realize the value of one second,
ask a person who just avoided an accident.
To realize the value of one millisecond,
ask the person who won the silver medal in the Olympics.
Treasure every moment that you have! And treasure it more because you shared it with someone special, special enough to spend your time. And remember that time waits for no one. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why it's called the present!
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Date: Thursday, October 2, 2008 GMT Views: 1417
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Registered: August 7, 2007 Location: North Carolina Posts: 28113
Thu, Oct 02, 2008 @ 10:14 AM
What a wonderful quote for your page! Great message there!
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Thu, Oct 02, 2008 @ 10:18 AM
This is amazing! Thanks for sharing it with us...it's a keeper!!!
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Registered: May 28, 2008 Location: Miami, Florida Posts: 34706
Thu, Oct 02, 2008 @ 12:53 PM
Believe it or not - I have this SAME quote in my high school scrapbook ~ and thank you for sharing it, I haven't seen it in forever and it bears repeating! Lovely page!
Registered: June 26, 2006 Location: Dolphin, VA USA Posts: 433
Thu, Oct 02, 2008 @ 2:20 PM
That is wonderful, thank you for sharing it! It does make a perfect scrapbook page, I am sure I'm in good company with LOTS of people who will be using this idea!
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