Quotes on Carpe Diem

Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.

Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race.

I shut my eyes in order to see.

Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.

Throughout history, the arts and humanities have helped men and women around the globe grapple with the most challenging questions and come to know the most basic truths. In our increasingly interconnected world, the arts play an important role in both shaping the character that defines us and reminding us of our shared humanity. This month, we celebrate our Nation's arts and humanities, and we recommit to ensuring all Americans can access and experience them.

Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.

The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

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