Carpe Diem Quotes - Page 4

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

The human race is governed by its imagination.

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.

Nothing is worth more than this day.

If modern civilization man had to kill the animals he eats, the number of vegetarians would rise astronomically.

I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.

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.

The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.

Whoever has skill in music is of good temperament and fitted for all things. We must teach music in schools.

Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It's lighter than you think.

In this speedy world of ours when facts are multiplying rapidly and giant rearrangements are happening all around us, it seems dangerous to be made nervous by the new - to want what we can never have, to want things not to be rearranged. It would be better to be able to take the leap, which is to be able not only to live with change and newness, but even to help make it.

Seize the day. Because, believe it or not, each and every one of us in this room is one day going to stop breathing, turn cold, and die.

Survival is not possible if the best of us lack all conviction, while the worst of us are full of passionate intensity.

How can we turn our back on an endeavor which increases our children's cultural intelligence, heightens individual sensitivity and deepens our collective sense of humanity? I suggest to you that we cannot.

A spiritual life means: It is now or never.

What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour?

There is one thing we can do, and the happiest of people are those who do it to the limit of their ability. We can be completely present.

Art is a nation's most precious heritage. For it is in our works of art that we reveal to ourselves and to others the inner vision which guides us as a nation. And where there is no vision, the people perish.

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

I think human beings make life beautiful. There's a lot of beauty in everything. I think what makes life beautiful is the ability to acknowledge that.

It's hard to explain how much one can love writing. If people knew how happy it can make you, we would all be writing all the time. It's the greatest secret of the world.

Eggheads, unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks.

I have always known what I wanted, and that was beauty... in every form.

If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.

Each day is an opportunity to travel back into tomorrow's past and change it.