Time & Perspective Quote by L. Ron Hubbard

A neat bit of emotional martial arts: it redirects guilt into momentum, swapping the drag of “yesterday” for the agency of “today” and the promise of “tomorrow.” The line is built like a simple three-step program. First, a command (“Never regret”) that treats regret less as a feeling than a bad habit you can just quit. Then a re-centering (“Life is in you today”) that frames vitality as an internal resource, not a circumstance. Finally, an empowerment pitch (“you make your tomorrow”) that flatters the listener with authorship over their own future.

The intent is overtly motivational, but the subtext is more strategic: memory is negotiable, and self-blame is waste. If you can be persuaded that the past deserves no emotional tax, you’re primed to accept any system that promises relief through present-tense action. That’s why the sentence avoids specifics. No mention of what happened yesterday, what accountability looks like, or what “making” tomorrow requires. Regret is treated as optional, not sometimes appropriate.

Context matters with Hubbard. As a prolific pulp writer who later founded Scientology, he understood the power of brisk, portable aphorisms: language that functions like a lever, not a portrait. The quote works because it compresses consolation and command into one breath. It offers freedom from rumination while quietly steering you away from messy questions about responsibility, repair, and consequences. It’s optimism with an edge: don’t look back; build forward.