Carpe Diem Quotes

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

  Mother Teresa

  Life, New Year, Mother

  Mother Teresa, Mother Teresa of Calcutta (2010). “In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories & Prayers”, p.17, New World Library

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• Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think.

  Horace

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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  Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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  I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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  I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

  Albert Einstein

  Happiness, Time, Clever

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.24, St. Martin's Press

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• You may delay, but time will not.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Benjamin Franklin (1998). “Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom”, p.43, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• One positive thought produces millions of positive vibrations.

  John Coltrane

  Positive Vibrations, Positive Thoughts, Produce

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  I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Mar 15, 2014

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that's easy. What's hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

  Charles Mingus

  Inspirational, Music, Art

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• Art is a nation's most precious heritage. For it is in our works of art that we reveal to ourselves and to others the inner vision which guides us as a nation. And where there is no vision, the people perish.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Art, People, Vision

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.1022, Best Books on

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• Why always "not yet"?  Do flowers in spring say "not yet"? 

  Norman Douglas

  Spring, Flower, Carpe

  Norman Douglas (1930). “Three of them”

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  Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.

  James Dean

  Life, Change, Positive

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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  I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.

  Groucho Marx

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

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  It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.87, BookBaby

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• Life begins when you do.

  Hugh Downs

  Carpe

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• Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

  Melody Beattie

  Happiness, Thanksgiving, Thank You

  Melody Beattie (2003). “The Language of Letting Go: A Meditation Book and Journal for Daily Reflections”, Hazelden Publishing

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• How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

  Unknown

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Anne Frank from Dec 25, 2011

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• 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.

  Hank Aaron

  Opportunity, Swings, Two

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• The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.206, Anchor

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  Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake.

  Francis Bacon

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.

  John Burroughs

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

  John Burroughs (1913). “The Writings of John Burroughs. [”

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• Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Happiness, Success, Hope

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.395, Yale University Press

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• Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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