Carpe Diem Quotes

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

Your future depends on what you do today.

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.

When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.

One positive thought produces millions of positive vibrations.

I believe that order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction. I prefer gentleness to violence, forgiveness to vendetta. On the whole I think knowledge is preferable to ignorance, and I am sure human sympathy is more valuable than ideology.

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.

Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.

It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one.

We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

In playing ball, and in life, a person occasionally gets the opportunity to do something great. When that time comes, only two things matter: being prepared to seize the moment and having the courage to take your best swing.

When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.

History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.

Music education opens doors that help children pass from school into the world around them - a world of work, culture, intellectual activity, and human involvement. The future of our nation depends on providing our children with a complete education that includes music.

Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

Boys, you must strive to find your own voice, because the longer you wait to begin the less likely you are to find it at all.

Real love begins where nothing is expected in return.

It's a mere moment in a man's life between an All-Star game and an old-timer's game.

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.

Forever is composed of nows.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.