309 Quotes About Carpe-diem

Dream as if you will live forever; Live as if you will die today.

Be like Sindbad. Venture forth! Embosom the waves, let your shoes be sucked from your feet and your very trousers enticed by the frothing deep. The ambiguous sea awaits, I told them, marry it!There’s nothing out there, they said. Wrong, I said, absolutely wrong. There are waltzes, sword canes, and sea wrack dazzling to the eyes.

We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.

TIME: Today Is My Everything

These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.

Just breathe," my mom would say, "Ten tiny breaths... Seize them. Feel them. Love them.

To live like you've had no yesterdays is a triumph that is both sublime and stupid.

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

A day is made up of twenty-four hours. It’s not too few or too many. It just is. People fill the hours however they choose. Work, school, leisure activities, sleep: those kinds of things.