Best 263 quotes in «carpe diem quotes» category

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

find your eternity in each moment

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

History teaches us the mistakes we are going to make.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

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.

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 live with carpe diem engraved on my heart.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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 a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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