Best 263 quotes in «carpe diem quotes» category

I believe that order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction. I prefer gentleness to violence, forgiveness to vendetta. On the whole I think knowledge is preferable to ignorance, and I am sure human sympathy is more valuable than ideology.

I finally realized that being grateful to my body was key to giving more love to myself.

If modern civilization man had to kill the animals he eats, the number of vegetarians would rise astronomically.

If you could travel back in time to the present moment, what would you do differently?

If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit.

If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.

I have died so little today, friend, forgive me.

I held a moment in my hand, brilliant as a star, fragile as a flower, a tiny sliver of one hour. I dripped it carelessly, Ah! I didn't know, I held opportunity.

I live with carpe diem engraved on my heart.

If you listen real close, you can hear them whisper their legacy to you. Go on, lean in. Listen, you hear it? Carpe diem, seize the day boys, make your lives extraordinary.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

I'm fairly certain that YOLO is just Carpe Diem for stupid people.

In playing ball, and in life, a person occasionally gets the opportunity to do something great. When that time comes, only two things matter: being prepared to seize the moment and having the courage to take your best swing.

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve

I think human beings make life beautiful. There's a lot of beauty in everything. I think what makes life beautiful is the ability to acknowledge that.

It is impossible for ideas to compete in the marketplace if no forum for their presentation is provided or available.

In this speedy world of ours when facts are multiplying rapidly and giant rearrangements are happening all around us, it seems dangerous to be made nervous by the new - to want what we can never have, to want things not to be rearranged. It would be better to be able to take the leap, which is to be able not only to live with change and newness, but even to help make it.

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

It's a mere moment in a man's life between an All-Star game and an old-timer's game.

I stand upon my desk to remind myself that we must constantly look at things in a different way.

It is a pity to make a mystery out of what should most easily be understood. There is nothing occult about the thought that all things maybe made well or made ill. A work of art is a well-made thing - that is all. It may be a well-made statue of a well-made chair or a well-made book. Art is not a special sauce applied to ordinary cooking; it is the cooking itself that is good. Most simply and generally, Art may be thought of as "The Well Doing of What Needs Doing.

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.

It's our mortality that terrifies us, because what we're really seeking is immortality - that is, after all, a fool's errand.

It's hard to explain how much one can love writing. If people knew how happy it can make you, we would all be writing all the time. It's the greatest secret of the world.

I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.

Law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.

I will not wait to love as best as I can. We thought we were young and that there would be time to love well sometime in the future. This is a terrible way to think. It is no way to live, to wait to love.

Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.

Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.

Music education opens doors that help children pass from school into the world around them - a world of work, culture, intellectual activity, and human involvement. The future of our nation depends on providing our children with a complete education that includes music.

Music gives us a language that cuts across the disciplines, helps us to see connections and brings a more coherent meaning to our world.

It's just as sure a recipe for failure to have the right idea fifty years too soon as five years too late.

Let you hold in mind, girls, that your beauty must pass Like a lovely white clover that rusts with its grass. Keep your bottoms off barstools and marry you young Or be left--an old barrel with many a bung.

Look for the good in every person and every situation. You'll almost always find it.

Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, expels diseases, softens every pain.

My most fundamental hope is for a worldwide attitude of tolerance, which will only come through education and an awareness of other cultures and religions. The more people are exposed to other philosophies and thoughts, the more possible it becomes to resolve world conflicts peacefully. Education builds tolerance for other points of view.

Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law.

Nothing is easier than spending public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.

Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.

Oh, now, now, now, the only now, and above all now, and there is no other now but thou now and now is thy prophet.

Our most consequential human problems will be resolved, not through competition, but collaboration... what we need in education is a learning climate in which students work together. In such an atmosphere, truth emerges as authentic insights are conscientiously exchanged.

Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.

One positive thought produces millions of positive vibrations.

Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

Pyramids, cathedrals, and rockets exist not because of geometry, theories of structures, or thermodynamics, but because they were first a picture- literally a vision-in the minds of those who built them. Society is where it is today because people had the perception; the images and the imagination; the creativity that the Arts provide, to make the world the place we live in today.

Remember there are no mistakes, only lessons. Love yourself, trust your choices, and everything is possible

Seize the day, take hold of it, and make it whatever you want.

Seize the day [Carpe diem]: trust not to the morrow.