Day, Living by the
Focus on living one day at a time to avoid being overwhelmed by life's difficulties.
When I used to fish in mountain-streams, if I had a short line and rod, I could direct it easily, and throw it into this or that pool as I pleased; but, if I let out my line till it was twenty or thirty feet long, I could not direct it, but I was the victim of every floating stick, and jutting rock, and overhanging bough. So I have seen men wading down the stream of life, jumping from stone to stone, slipping on this rock, and falling into that pool, because their line was so long they could do nothing with it,—a line that reached down forty years sometimes. Now, if you would avoid these difficulties, shorten your line! Let it reach over one day only; for "sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof."
— Beecher