Jerry Spinelli Quotes About Today

Quotes about: Today

• Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don't rent them out to tomorrow.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Life, Inspiring, Yesterday And Today

  Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.222, Knopf Books for Young Readers

• Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don’t rent them out to tomorrow. Do you know what you’re doing when you spend a moment wondering how things are going to turn out with Perry? You’re cheating yourself out of today. Today is calling to you, trying to get your attention, but you’re stuck on tomorrow, and today trickles away like water down a drain. You wake up the next morning and that today you wasted is gone forever. It’s now yesterday. Some of those moments may have had wonderful things in store for you , but now you’ll never know.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Motivational, Cheating, Morning

• She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow. She was the faintest scent of a cactus flower, the flitting shadow of an elf owl. We did not know what to make of her. In our minds we tried to pin her to a cork board like a butterfly, but the pin merely went through and away she flew.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Flower, Butterfly, Mind

  Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.17, Knopf Books for Young Readers

• Do not follow me! Let's just be fabulously where we are and who we are. You be you and I'll be me, today and today and today, and let's trust the future to tommorrow. Let the stars keep track of us. Let us ride our own orbits and trust that they will meet. May our reunion be not a finding but a sweet collision of destinies!

  Jerry Spinelli

  Sweet, Stars, Destiny

  Jerry Spinelli (2011). “Love, Stargirl”, p.240, Hachette UK

• She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Cactus, Today, Tomorrow

  Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.17, Knopf Books for Young Readers

• Tell me I didn't imagine it, Leo. Tell me that even though our bodies were in seperate states, our star selves shared an enchanted place. Tell me that right around noon today (eastern time) you had the strangest sensation: a tiny chill on your shoulder...a flutter in the heart...a shadow of strawberry-banana crossing your tongue...tell me you whispered my name.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Stars, Heart, Self

  Jerry Spinelli (2007). “Love, Stargirl”, p.52, Knopf Books for Young Readers

• If I get a new idea today—or any day—I won't run from it. I won't trash it. If it's something I really want to do—I'll do it.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Running, Ideas, Want

• Let's just be fabulously where we are and who we are. You be you and I'll be me, today and today and today, and let's trust the future to tomorrow.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Who We Are, Today, Tomorrow

  Jerry Spinelli (2007). “Love, Stargirl”, p.179, Knopf Books for Young Readers

• Today the mockingbird does not sound very happy. It sounds if it is coming apart. As of the very heart of itself-its song-is breaking into pieces and flying off in a hundred directions.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Song, Heart, Flying

  Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.191, Knopf Books for Young Readers

• Live today like there's no tomorrow!

  Jerry Spinelli

  Live For Today, Today, Tomorrow

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