Best 263 quotes in «carpe diem quotes» category

Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero'Snatch at today and trust as little as you can in tomorrow' - (Odes) Often translated as 'Seize the day'.

Carpe Jugulum," read Agnes aloud. "That's... well, Carpe Diem is 'Sieze the Day,' so this means-" "Go for the throat

Carpe diem, quam minime credula postero. Enjoy the present day, trusting very little to the morrow.

Do you know that disease and death must needs overtake us, no matter what we are doing?... what do you wish to be doing when it overtakes you?... If you have anything better to be doing when you are so overtaken, get to work on that.

Don't talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.

Don't think, but look! (PI 66)

Eggheads, unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks.

Each of us is the only person who can give the other what each of us wants to have: Peace.

Each day is an opportunity to travel back into tomorrow's past and change it.

Find what it is you love to do and do it well. Make the world a better place.

Eventually you realize that your whole life up to now has been preparation, and you begin to suspect that the rest might be preparation, too.

find your eternity in each moment

Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.

History teaches us the mistakes we are going to make.

History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.

History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.

How you choose to respond each moment to the movie of life determines how you see the next frame, and the next, and eventually how you feel when the movie ends.

How can we turn our back on an endeavor which increases our children's cultural intelligence, heightens individual sensitivity and deepens our collective sense of humanity? I suggest to you that we cannot.

I always wanted to be a young mom, but generations of women have worked so hard so we can have a career and wait to have children. So I say carpe diem - take advantage of that.

I always thought the idea of education was to learn to think for yourself.

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

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.

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

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

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

I live with carpe diem engraved on my heart.

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

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.

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.

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 have died so little today, friend, forgive me.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.