Best 263 quotes in «carpe diem quotes» category

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Screamin' 'Carpe Diem!' until I'm a Dead Poet.

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.

The possible's slow fuse is lit by the Imagination.

The most valuable things in life are priceless. They are courage, compassion, wisdom, respect for ourselves and others, and a host of characteristics that we call the beauty of the human spirit.

The problem with putting off things you've always wanted to do is that eventually you run out of always.

There is much coldness among men because we do not dare to be as cordial as we really are.

There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.

The value of moments, when cast up, is immense, if well employed; if thrown away, their loss is irrecoverable.

The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.

The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

There is one thing we can do, and the happiest of people are those who do it to the limit of their ability. We can be completely present.

There's more to life then living, so hold on.

The swift years slip and slide adown the steep; The slow years pass; neither will come again.

Throughout history, the arts and humanities have helped men and women around the globe grapple with the most challenging questions and come to know the most basic truths. In our increasingly interconnected world, the arts play an important role in both shaping the character that defines us and reminding us of our shared humanity. This month, we celebrate our Nation's arts and humanities, and we recommit to ensuring all Americans can access and experience them.

This music heals people because music is vibration, and the proper vibration heals.

Time is painted with a lock before, and bald behind, signifying thereby that we must take time by the forelock; for, when it is once past, there is no recalling it.

The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.

Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run

Time! where didst thou those years inter Which I have seene decease?

To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.

To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

To-morrow — oh, 'twill never be, If we should live a thousand years! Our time is all to-day, to-day, The same, though changed; and while it flies With still small voice the moments say: "To-day, to-day, be wise, be wise.

To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, To gain all while you give, To roam the roads of lands remote, To travel is to live.

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race.

We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.

We're not laughing at you - we're laughing near you

We study history not to be clever in another time, but to be wise always.

We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.

To understand is to stand under which is to look up to which is a good way to understand.

What did the tree learn from the earth to be able to talk with the sky?

What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it.

What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour?

What to do with your one life? The same thing you would do if you had two lives, and this were the second.

When the human being sings he lends expression to the great wise ways in which the world was made.

When we approach love and creativity with the level of conviction that the powers-that-be in the world today are approaching hatred and destruction, then and only then will we have a chance.

When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.

When you kill time, remember that it has no resurrection.

Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.

We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

Why must conversions always come so late? Why do people always apologize to corpses?

Whoever has skill in music is of good temperament and fitted for all things. We must teach music in schools.

Yes, I know. Death sits with his key in my lock. Not one day is taken for granted. Even nursery rhymes have put me in hock.

Your future depends on what you do today.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

All things that are, are with more spirit chased than enjoy'd.

Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.