Johann Wolfgang von Goethe — Nothing is worth more than this day.
Not tomorrow, not the golden yesterday — this day, the ordinary one in your hands. Goethe places the whole value of a life in the day currently being lived.
It reframes small efforts as large ones. The few minutes you give English today are not a down-payment on some better future day; they are the thing itself, spent well.
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The value or importance of something.
Synonyms: value, merit, importance
Nothing is worth more than this day.
The period of time now occurring.
Synonyms: now, today, the moment
He learned to value the present.
Common questions
It means the present day holds the greatest value — more than the past or an imagined future — so it deserves to be used fully.
It is attributed to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; since the exact source is uncertain, we mark it as attributed.
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