Quotes on Carpe Diem

I always thought the idea of education was to learn to think for yourself.

Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think.

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

All the gold in the world cannot buy a dying man one more breath--so what does that make today worth?

Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

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

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

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

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

Your happy songs bring to me the scent of Heaven. Please keep singing!

Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.

We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

The ultimate victory of tomorrow is democracy, and through democracy with education, for no people in all the world can be kept eternally ignorant or eternally enslaved.

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

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.

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

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.