Best 263 quotes in «carpe diem quotes» category

Above all you must illumine your own soul with its profundities and its shallows, and its vanities and its generosities, and say what your beauty means to you or your plainness, and what is your relation to the ever-changing and turning world.

Aeschylus and Plato are remembered today long after the triumphs of Imperial Athens are gone. Dante outlived the ambitions of thirteenth century Florence. Goethe stands serenely above the politics of Germany, and I am certain that after the dust of centuries has passed over cities, we too will be remembered not for victories or defeats in battle or in politics, but for our contribution to the human spirit.

Against Him those women sin who torment their skin with potions, stain their cheeks with rouge and extend the line of their eyes with black coloring. Doubtless they are dissatisfied with God's plastic skill. In their own persons they convict and censure the Artificer of all things.

All the gold in the world cannot buy a dying man one more breath--so what does that make today worth?

Art is fundamental, unique to each of us...Even in difficult economic times - especially in difficult economic times, the arts are essential.

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

An idea is a feat of association.

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

A spiritual life means: It is now or never.

By God, I will not obey this filthy enactment!

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.

By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.

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

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

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'.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

History teaches us the mistakes we are going to make.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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