Carpe-diem Quotes

A promise is a direction taken, a self-limitation of choice. As Odo pointed out, if no direction is ...

Death twitches my ear;'Live,' he says... 'I'm coming.

Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.

These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or th...

Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.

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

Whether it is the best of times or the worst of times, it is the only time we have.

The only dream worth having, I told her, is to dream that you will live while you're alive and die o...

We are the change we have been waiting for.

Nobody is ready for death. If you ask Joe Blow on the street, he aint gonna tell you he thinks he'll...

I will not wait to love as best as I can. We thought we were young and that there would be time to l...

Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.

The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and witho...

Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.

That's why we seize the moment try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and hold it.

Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the 'Titanic' who waved off the dessert cart.

Every kind of contempt for sex, every impurification of it by means of the concept "impure", is the ...

It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleadi...

I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a ...

You look ridiculous if you danceYou look ridiculous if you don't danceSo you might as welldance.

Why not just live in the moment, especially if it has a good beat?

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yes...

Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.

I suppose that I have not many months to live: but of course I know nothing about it. I may add that...

Awake! arise! the hour is late! Angels are knocking at thy door!They are in haste and cannot wait, A...

Leave off asking what tomorrow will bring, andwhatever days fortune will give, count themas profit.

It's a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you're ready. I have this feeling now that act...

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

There is only one day left, always starting over: It is given to us at dawn and taken away from us a...

Jus' live the day. Don' worry yaself.

What I'm not sure about, is if our lives have been so different from the lives of the people we save...

He who does not value life does not deserve it.

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

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

The future depends on what you do today.

Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without a...

When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to lo...

The word ‘sin’ is derived from the Indo-European root ‘es-,’ meaning ‘to be.’ When I discovered this...

Let us eat, drink, and love for tomorrow we die, would be in fact the language of reason, the morali...

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.

The unfailing rhythm of the seasons, the ever-turning wheel of life, the four facets of the earth wh...

Your hand can seize today, but not tomorrow; and thoughts of your tomorrow are nothing but desire. D...

Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.

Do something instead of killing time. Because time is killing you.

We are all dying, every moment that passes of every day. That is the inescapable truth of this exist...

Write it on your heartthat every day is the best day in the year.He is rich who owns the day, and no...

I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.

But bid life seize the present? It lives less in the present Than in the future always, And less in ...

I am not a teacher, but an awakener.

[What Rushdie took away from reading Gunter Grass's The Tin Drum]: Go for broke. Always try and do t...

If this was my forever, I didn't want to spend another second of it here.

My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a b

My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus.", Decemb...

Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come--as though that t...

Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come--as though that t...

Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come--as though that t...

Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come--as though that t...

Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come--as though that t...

Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come--as though that t...

Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come--as though that t...

Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come--as though that t...

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