carpe-diem

Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.

Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run.

I'm fairly certain that YOLO is just Carpe Diem for stupid people.

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.

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

The unfailing rhythm of the seasons, the ever-turning wheel of life, the four facets of the earth which are lit in turn by the sun, the passing of life--all these filled me once more with a feeling of oppression. Once more there sounded within me, together with the cranes' cry, the terrible warning that there is only one life for all men, that there is no other, and that all that can be enjoyed must be enjoyed here. In eternity no other chance will be given to us.A mind hearing this pitiless warning--a warning which, at the same time, is so compassionate--would decide to conquer its weakness and meanness, its laziness and vain hopes and cling with all its power to every second which flies away forever.Great examples come to your mind and you see clearly that you are a lost soul, your life is being frittered away on petty pleasures and pains and trifling talk. "Shame! Shame!" you cry, and bite your lips.

It's finished. Everything went past, without me.

Whether it is the best of times or the worst of times, it is the only time we have.

I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.

When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ...

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

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.

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

Rest in Peace?_ Why that phrase? That__ the most ridiculous phrase I__e ever heard! You die, and they say __est in Peace!_ _Why would one need to __est_ when they__e dead?! I spent thousands of years of world history resting. While Agamemnon was leading his ships to Troy, I was resting. While Ovid was seducing women at the chariot races, I was resting. While Jeanne d__rc was hallucinating, I was resting. I wait until airplanes are scuttling across the sky to burst out onto the scene, and I__ only going to be here for a short while, so when I die, I certainly won__ need to rest again! Not while more adventures of the same kind are going on.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.

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.

It's a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you're ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There's almost no such thing as ready. There's only now. And you may as well do it now. I mean, I say that confidently as if I'm about to go bungee jumping or something--I'm not. I'm not a crazed risk taker. But I do think that, generally speaking, now is as good a time as any.

Some are saving their right now for later, when tomorrow could be never.