A Way of Life

Live one day at a time

Cites Christ and Horace

Osler preaches “living for the day only” and credits Christ’s “take no thought for the morrow”. He also quotes Horace’s ode for it: “He who can call to-day his own”.

1. 23 BCE

   “A wise deity shrouds in obscure darkness the events of the time to come, and smiles if a mortal is solicitous beyond the law of nature. Be mindful to manage duly that which is present.”

   Horace, Odes. Earliest we can find, about 1,940 years earlier.

2. 1913

   “only for this day are we to ask for our daily bread, and we are expressly bidden to take no thought for the morrow.”