Carpe Diem Quotes - Page 2

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.

We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

Music gives us a language that cuts across the disciplines, helps us to see connections and brings a more coherent meaning to our world.

I will not wait to love as best as I can. We thought we were young and that there would be time to love well sometime in the future. This is a terrible way to think. It is no way to live, to wait to love.

Some people try to turn back their odometers. Not me, I want people to know “why” I look this way. I’ve traveled a long way and some of the roads weren’t paved.

Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.

Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, expels diseases, softens every pain.

Pyramids, cathedrals, and rockets exist not because of geometry, theories of structures, or thermodynamics, but because they were first a picture- literally a vision-in the minds of those who built them. Society is where it is today because people had the perception; the images and the imagination; the creativity that the Arts provide, to make the world the place we live in today.

find your eternity in each moment

Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.

There's more to life then living, so hold on.

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

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

I want to take my rightful share of life by force, I want to give lavishly, I want love to flow from my heart, to ripen and bear fruit. There are many horizons that must be visited, fruit that must be plucked, books read, and white pages in the scrolls of life to be inscribed with vivid sentences in a bold hand.

Do anything, but let it produce joy.

The future belongs to young people with an education and the imagination to create.

The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

Don't talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.

That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.

To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.

What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it.

The most valuable things in life are priceless. They are courage, compassion, wisdom, respect for ourselves and others, and a host of characteristics that we call the beauty of the human spirit.

Why must conversions always come so late? Why do people always apologize to corpses?

What did the tree learn from the earth to be able to talk with the sky?