309 Quotes About Carpe-diem

You cannot worry about what came before or what happens next, what has been lost or what you might gain. There is only this moment.

Carpe diem: Enjoying the "instants" as they emerge. When living is too comfy or glitzy, it may not be easy to appreciate the humblest things in life. Being happy with the small gifts we receive can be a bliss, but we can, even more, expand it through voluntary action and exalting Voltaire's words, "today, I have decided to be happy." (« Is that all there is?")

Today is Preparation for the Next Opportunity.

For it isn't just moments of happiness, which is all I thought we got. It's happiness that spreads.

Nobody is ready for death. If you ask Joe Blow on the street, he aint gonna tell you he thinks he'll live forever. But when the end is near you'll realize you've been believing that all along. It's like getting caught with your pants down. That's why you gotta live, little one. Yeah stop and smell them roses.

Leave off asking what tomorrow will bring, andwhatever days fortune will give, count themas profit.

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

Some people chase the idea of death so much they forget to do something as simple, yet profound, as live.

Then I wondered why on earth would anyone ever stand in the world as if standing in the cornucopic middle of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon but inside a tiny white-painted rectangle about the size of a single space in a car park, refusing to come out of it, and all around her or him the whole world, beautiful, various, waiting?