Quotes on carpe diem
Enjoy yourself. It's later than you think.
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Chinese Proverb Quotes
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
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Mark Twain Quotes
You may delay, but time will not.
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Benjamin Franklin Quotes
Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.
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Art Buchwald Quotes
Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons.
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Ruth Ann Schabacker Quotes
Every day of our lives we are on the verge of making those slight changes that would make all the difference.
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Mignon McLaughlin Quotes
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
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Sydney J. Harris Quotes
You live longer once you realize that any time spent being unhappy is wasted.
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Ruth E. Renkl Quotes
Why always "not yet"? Do flowers in spring say "not yet"?
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Norman Douglas Quotes
I have a "carpe diem" mug and, truthfully, at six in the morning the words do not make me want to seize the day. They make me want to slap a dead poet.
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Joanne Sherman Quotes
Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.
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Nicholas de Chamfort Quotes
Many a man gets weary of clamping down on his rough impulses, which if given occasional release would encourage the living of life with salt in it, in place of dust.
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Henry S. Haskins Quotes
As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
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Henry David Thoreau Quotes
When one subtracts from life infancy (which is vegetation), sleep, eating and swilling, buttoning and unbuttoning - how much remains of downright existence? The summer of a dormouse.
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George Gordon Byron Quotes
Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.
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Scottish Proverb Quotes
Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes
What a folly to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.
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John Howe Quotes
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
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Rabindranath Tagore Quotes
Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.
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George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Waste not the smallest thing created, for grains of sand make mountains, and atomies infinity. Waste not the smallest time in imbecile infirmity, for well thou knowest that seconds form eternity.
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E. Knight Quotes
Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.
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William Hazlitt Quotes
In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one treads seems not to move, and one can live undisturbed. So it is with Time in one's life.
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Marcel Proust Quotes
May you live all the days of your life.
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Jonathan Swift Quotes
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.
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Horace Quotes
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
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Charles Buxton Quotes
Fear not that life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.
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John Henry Cardinal Newman Quotes
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and for deeds left undone.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
Expect an early death - it will keep you busier.
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Martin H. Fischer Quotes
The question for each man is not what he would do if he had the means, time, influence, and educational advantages, but what he will do with the things he has.
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Hamilton Quotes
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.
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John Burroughs Quotes
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
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Wayne Dyer Quotes
Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life.
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Michael Leboeuf Quotes
Now is the time to get drunk! To stop being the martyred slaves of time, to get absolutely drunk - on wine, poetry, or on virtue, as you please.
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Charles Baudelaire Quotes
Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.
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Stephen Vincent Benét Quotes
Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.
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Jean de La Bruyère Quotes
Every second is of infinite value.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
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Henry David Thoreau Quotes
Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
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Samuel Johnson Quotes
I held a moment in my hand, brilliant as a star, fragile as a flower, a tiny sliver of one hour. I dripped it carelessly, Ah! I didn't know, I held opportunity.
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Hazel Lee Quotes
We cannot waste time. We can only waste ourselves.
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George Matthew Adams Quotes
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a manner that when you die the world cries and you rejoice.
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Indian Saying Quotes
We are always getting ready to live but never living.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Live every day as if it were your last and then some day you'll be right.
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H.H. "Breaker" Morant Quotes
As you grow older, you'll find the only things you regret are the things you didn't do.
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Zachary Scott Quotes
Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.
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Dion Boucicault Quotes
You only live once; but if you live it right, once is enough.
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Adam Marshall Quotes
A man that is young in years may be old in hours, if he has lost no time.
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Francis Bacon Quotes
It's a mere moment in a man's life between an All-Star Game and an Old-timers' Game.
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Vin Scully Quotes
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
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James Dean Quotes
When your life flashes before your eyes, make sure you've got plenty to watch.
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Author Unknown Quotes
Those who make the worst use of their time most complain of its brevity.
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Jean de La Bruyere Quotes
What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
I have died so little today, friend, forgive me.
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Thomas Lux Quotes
If you woke up breathing, congratulations! You have another chance.
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Andrea Boydston Quotes
The follies which a man regrets most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.
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Helen Rowland Quotes
Present your family and friends with their eulogies now - they won't be able to hear how much you love them and appreciate them from inside the coffin.
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Anonymous Quotes
You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.
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Joan Baez Quotes
Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending.
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Author Unknown Quotes
The moment when you first wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours. No matter how weary or dreary you may feel, you possess the certainty that, during the day that lies before you, absolutely anything may happen. And the fact that it practically always doesn't, matters not a jot. The possibility is always there.
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Monica Baldwin Quotes
We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well.
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George MacDonald Quotes
Life, if well lived, is long enough.
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
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William Shakespeare Quotes
All the windows of my heart I open to the day.
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John Greenleaf Whittier Quotes
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.
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Diane Ackerman Quotes
Who well lives, long lives; for this age of ours should not be numbered by years, days, and hours.
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Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas Quotes
Why must conversions always come so late? Why do people always apologize to corpses?
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David Brin Quotes
If you believe in forever, then life is just a one-night stand.
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Righteous Brothers Quotes
So much of our time is preparation, so much is routine, and so much retrospect, that the path of each man's genius contracts itself to a very few hours.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
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Elbert Hubbard Quotes
He has spent all his life in letting down empty buckets into empty wells; and he is frittering away his age in trying to draw them up again.
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Sydney Smith Quotes
Warning: Dates in Calendar are closer than they appear.
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Author Unknown Quotes
Later never exists.
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