Carpe Diem Quotes - Page 4

• We are always getting ready to live but never living.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Law Of Attraction, Live In The Moment

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, p.1, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Beauty, Beautiful

  1841 Essays: First Series,'Art'.

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  Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour.

  Walt Whitman

  Happiness, Nature, Live In The Moment

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.97, NYU Press

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

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Focus, Mind

  Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 19 Sept. 1777)

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• A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

  Walt Whitman

  Beauty, Nature, Morning

  Walt Whitman “Annotated LEAVES OF GRASS with English Grammar Exercises: by Walt Whitman (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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• That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.

  Ninon de L'Enclos

  Beauty, Beautiful, Being Beautiful

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• I have always known what I wanted, and that was beauty... in every form.

  Joan Crawford

  Life, Aries, Form

  Interview in "Hollywood Reporter", 1949.

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• 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.

  Andrew McMahon

  Life, Beautiful, Thinking

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• Life is a helluva lot more fun if you say yes rather than no

  Richard Branson

  Inspirational, Life, Fun

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

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Philosophical, Taken, Sunset

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “Essays in Aesthetics”, p.12, Open Road Media

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• The future starts today, not tomorrow.

  Pope John Paul II

  Dream, Inspiration, Future

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• Carpe diem. (Seize the day.)

  Horace

  Movie, Wise, Latin

  Horace, Jeffrey H. Kaimowitz (2008). “The Odes of Horace”, p.27, JHU Press

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• I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

  Diane Ackerman

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

  Annie Dillard

  Life, Wisdom, Travel

  "The Writing Life". Tikkun magazine, Volume 3, Number 6, 1988.

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• 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.

  Robin Williams

  Meaningful, Real, Dead Poets Society

  "Fictional character: John Keating". "Dead Poets Society", www.imdb.com. 1989.

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• I finally realized that being grateful to my body was key to giving more love to myself.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspiring, Thank You, Grateful

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• It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.

  Vince Lombardi

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Vince Lombardi, Jr. (2012). “What It Takes to Be Number One”, p.31, Thomas Nelson Inc

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  Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

  Truman Capote

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Truman Capote, M. Thomas Inge (1987). “Truman Capote: Conversations”, p.189, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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  Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

  Judy Garland

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Business Etiquette for the Nineties: Your Ticket to Career Success". Book by Lou Kennedy, 1992.

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• Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Success, Graduation

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

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• Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

  David Hume

  Positive, Beauty, Philosophical

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• If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Napoleon Hill (2013). “The Law of Success”, p.47, Courier Corporation

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• Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.

  Edith Wharton

  Enjoy Life, Action, Window

  Edith Wharton (2002). “Artemis to Actaeon and More: Selected Verse”, p.16, Wildside Press LLC

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• It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one.

  George Harrison

  Time, Future, Past

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  No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.

  Robin Williams

  Inspirational, Change, Philosophy

  "Robin Williams: Genie in the Lamp" by Alex Kip, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 14, 2014.

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