Quotes on Carpe Diem

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.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake.

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

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

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.

It is not down in any map; true places never are.

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

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.

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

If you listen real close, you can hear them whisper their legacy to you. Go on, lean in. Listen, you hear it? Carpe diem, seize the day boys, make your lives extraordinary.

So act that anything you do may become universal law.

If you come to a fork in the road, take it.

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

In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.

The possible's slow fuse is lit by the Imagination.

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

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.

There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can.

Do anything, but let it produce joy.