Carpe Diem Quotes - Page 7

Remember you must die whether you sit about moping all day long or whether on feast days you stretch out in a green field, happy with a bottle of Falernian from your innermost cellar.

Do you know that disease and death must needs overtake us, no matter what we are doing?... what do you wish to be doing when it overtakes you?... If you have anything better to be doing when you are so overtaken, get to work on that.

I always wanted to be a young mom, but generations of women have worked so hard so we can have a career and wait to have children. So I say carpe diem - take advantage of that.

I bought a pair of Carpe Diem boots, which were completely unnecessary and hideously expensive, but they make me feel quite fine and dandy.

Your happy songs bring to me the scent of Heaven. Please keep singing!

If you could travel back in time to the present moment, what would you do differently?

We study history not to be clever in another time, but to be wise always.

How you choose to respond each moment to the movie of life determines how you see the next frame, and the next, and eventually how you feel when the movie ends.

The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.

Carpe Jugulum," read Agnes aloud. "That's... well, Carpe Diem is 'Sieze the Day,' so this means-" "Go for the throat

Mr. Keating: Carpe Diem! Sieze the day!

What to do with your one life? The same thing you would do if you had two lives, and this were the second.

I live with carpe diem engraved on my heart.

It's just as sure a recipe for failure to have the right idea fifty years too soon as five years too late.

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.

Let you hold in mind, girls, that your beauty must pass Like a lovely white clover that rusts with its grass. Keep your bottoms off barstools and marry you young Or be left--an old barrel with many a bung.

This music heals people because music is vibration, and the proper vibration heals.

The flag is a flag of liberty of opinion as well as of political liberty.

The swift years slip and slide adown the steep; The slow years pass; neither will come again.

The arts are the best insurance policy a city can take on itself.

It is impossible for ideas to compete in the marketplace if no forum for their presentation is provided or available.

History is a bucket of ashes.

It's our mortality that terrifies us, because what we're really seeking is immortality - that is, after all, a fool's errand.

It is a pity to make a mystery out of what should most easily be understood. There is nothing occult about the thought that all things maybe made well or made ill. A work of art is a well-made thing - that is all. It may be a well-made statue of a well-made chair or a well-made book. Art is not a special sauce applied to ordinary cooking; it is the cooking itself that is good. Most simply and generally, Art may be thought of as "The Well Doing of What Needs Doing."

When we approach love and creativity with the level of conviction that the powers-that-be in the world today are approaching hatred and destruction, then and only then will we have a chance.