Carpe Diem Quotations

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do - especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.

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.

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

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

I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.

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

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

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

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

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

Don't talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.

When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.

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

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.

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

Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.

Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.

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

The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

I always wanted to be a young mom, but generations of women have worked so hard so we can have a career and wait to have children. So I say carpe diem - take advantage of that.

Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

The human race is governed by its imagination.

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.

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

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

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

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

The arts significantly boost student achievement, reduce discipline problems, and increase the odds students will go on to graduate from college. As First Lady Michelle Obama sums up, both she and the President believe 'strongly that arts education is essential for building innovative thinkers who will be our nation's leaders for tomorrow.'

The arts, instead of quaking along the periphery of our policy concerns, must push boldly into the core of policy. The arts are a response to our individuality and our nature and help to shape our identity. The arts are not a frill and should not be treated as such. They have the potential to become the driving force for healing division and divisiveness.

The arts are not a frill. The arts are a response to our individuality and our nature, and help to shape our identity. What is there that can transcend deep difference and stubborn divisions? The arts. They have a wonderful universality. Art has the potential to unify. It can speak in many languages without a translator. The arts do not discriminate. The arts lift us up.

The word "now" is like a bomb through the window, and it ticks.

You should *have* an experience; it shouldn't just *be* an experience.

Real love begins where nothing is expected in return.

How can we turn our back on an endeavor which increases our children's cultural intelligence, heightens individual sensitivity and deepens our collective sense of humanity? I suggest to you that we cannot.

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

It's hard to explain how much one can love writing. If people knew how happy it can make you, we would all be writing all the time. It's the greatest secret of the world.

If you don't take risks, you'll have a wasted soul.

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.

History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.

In this speedy world of ours when facts are multiplying rapidly and giant rearrangements are happening all around us, it seems dangerous to be made nervous by the new - to want what we can never have, to want things not to be rearranged. It would be better to be able to take the leap, which is to be able not only to live with change and newness, but even to help make it.

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

I will not wait to love as best as I can. We thought we were young and that there would be time to love well sometime in the future. This is a terrible way to think. It is no way to live, to wait to love.

We must realize that we have a choice. We are responsible for our own good time... When you do something you are proud of, dwell on it a little, praise yourself for it, relish the experience, take it in.

Eggheads, unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks.

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

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

If modern civilization man had to kill the animals he eats, the number of vegetarians would rise astronomically.

Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero'Snatch at today and trust as little as you can in tomorrow' - (Odes) Often translated as 'Seize the day'.

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.

Life begins when you do.

Remember you must die whether you sit about moping all day long or whether on feast days you stretch out in a green field, happy with a bottle of Falernian from your innermost cellar.

Seize the day [Carpe diem]: trust not to the morrow.

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.

So act that anything you do may become universal law.

Carpe diem, quam minime credula postero. Enjoy the present day, trusting very little to the morrow.

Music education opens doors that help children pass from school into the world around them - a world of work, culture, intellectual activity, and human involvement. The future of our nation depends on providing our children with a complete education that includes music.

Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law.

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

What I'm not sure about, is if our lives have been so different from the lives of the people we save. We all complete. Maybe none of us really understand what we've lived through, or feel we've had enough time.

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

Never find your delight in another's misfortune.

Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, expels diseases, softens every pain.

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

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.

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

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

To travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

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

One positive thought produces millions of positive vibrations.

We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It's lighter than you think.

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.

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.

I live with carpe diem engraved on my heart.

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

Ideas shape the course of history.

Art is fundamental, unique to each of us...Even in difficult economic times - especially in difficult economic times, the arts are essential.

I bought a pair of Carpe Diem boots, which were completely unnecessary and hideously expensive, but they make me feel quite fine and dandy.

Against Him those women sin who torment their skin with potions, stain their cheeks with rouge and extend the line of their eyes with black coloring. Doubtless they are dissatisfied with God's plastic skill. In their own persons they convict and censure the Artificer of all things.

Carpe Jugulum," read Agnes aloud. "That's... well, Carpe Diem is 'Sieze the Day,' so this means-" "Go for the throat

The artist has a special task and duty... reminding people of their humanity and the promise of their creativity.

A spiritual life means: It is now or never.

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

It is impossible for ideas to compete in the marketplace if no forum for their presentation is provided or available.

Each of us is the only person who can give the other what each of us wants to have: Peace.

It's our mortality that terrifies us, because what we're really seeking is immortality - that is, after all, a fool's errand.

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

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.

The flag is a flag of liberty of opinion as well as of political liberty.

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

Let you hold in mind, girls, that your beauty must pass Like a lovely white clover that rusts with its grass. Keep your bottoms off barstools and marry you young Or be left--an old barrel with many a bung.