Carpe Diem Quotes - Page 12

• Live as you will wish to have lived when you are dying.

  Christian Furchtegott Gellert

  Life, Positive, Birthday

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• The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

  Mark Twain

  Positive, Death, Spiritual

  "A Voice Crying In The Wilderness". Book by Edward Abbey, 1989.

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• Every beginning is a consequence - every beginning ends some thing.

  Paul Valery

  Change, Positive, Growth

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• The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Courage, Cancer, Grief

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.67, BookBaby

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

  Vin Scully

  Stars, Men, Games

  Remark at Major League Baseball All-Star Game at Dodger Stadium, 1980.

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• 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.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Believe, Ignorance, Thinking

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• 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.

  Virginia Woolf

  Mean, Vanity, Generosity

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.618, Wordsworth Editions

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• Your happy songs bring to me the scent of Heaven. Please keep singing!

  Rumi

  Song, Heaven, Singing

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• Music gives us a language that cuts across the disciplines, helps us to see connections and brings a more coherent meaning to our world.

  Ernest L. Boyer

  Cutting, Our World, Discipline

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• The arts are the best insurance policy a city can take on itself.

  W. W. Dumas

  Art, Cities, Policy

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• My most fundamental hope is for a worldwide attitude of tolerance, which will only come through education and an awareness of other cultures and religions. The more people are exposed to other philosophies and thoughts, the more possible it becomes to resolve world conflicts peacefully. Education builds tolerance for other points of view.

  John Hendricks

  Attitude, Philosophy, Views

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• Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.

  Vittorio Alfieri

  Heartbroken, Courage, Life And Death

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• 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.

  Doc Childre

  Choices, How You Feel, Next

  Doc Lew Childre, Bruce Cryer (1998). “Freeze-frame: One Minute Stress Management : a Scientifically Proven Technique for Clear Decision Making and Improved Health”, p.6, HeartMath

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• Mr. Keating: Carpe Diem! Sieze the day!

  Robin Williams

  Carpe

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• The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.

  Frank Barron

  Photography, Creativity, Average

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

  Apuleius

  Character, Rich, Enough

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• I live with carpe diem engraved on my heart.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Heart, Engraved, My Heart

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• Most people die at the last minute; others twenty years beforehand, some even earlier. They are the wretched of the earth.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Years, People, Lasts

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• 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.

  Jonathan Swift

  Past, Locks, Take Time

  Jonathan Swift (1752). “The works of D. Jonathan Swift ...: To which is prefixed, the doctor's life, with remarks on his writings, from the Earl of Orrery and others, not to be found in any former edition of his works.Dublin printed”, p.159

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• 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.

  Epictetus

  Disease And Death, Wish, Needs

  Epictetus (1925). “Epictetus: the Discourses as reported by Arrian, the Manual, and fragments”

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• I have died so little today, friend, forgive me.

  Thomas Lux

  Forgive Me, Forgiving, Littles

  Thomas Lux (1976). “The glassblower's breath”, Cleveland State Univ Poetry Center

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

  Lord Chesterfield

  Loss, Moments, Casts

  "Manners and speech or maxims extracted from Lord Chesterfield's letters to his son". Book by Lord Chesterfield, 1884.

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

  Robert Breault

  Two, Ifs, Two Lives

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

  Robert Breault

  Past, Opportunity, Each Day

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

  Robert Breault

  Running, Problem, Wanted

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