Carpe Diem Quotes - Page 10

• We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Anxiety, Alarms, Disaster

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.96, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Real love begins where nothing is expected in return.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Real, Love You, Love Is

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• When the human being sings he lends expression to the great wise ways in which the world was made.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Wise, Expression, World

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• Look for the good in every person and every situation. You'll almost always find it.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Positive Thinking, Looks

  Twitter post from Feb 14, 2015

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• They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

  Francis Bacon

  Life, Nature, Travel

  'The Advancement of Learning' (1605) bk. 2, ch. 7, sect. 5

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• The human race is governed by its imagination.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Inspiration, Race, Imagination

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Book by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, 1922.

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• If you come to a fork in the road, take it.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Happiness, Baseball

  Yogi: It Ain't Over (1989)

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• We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Travel, Journey, Next Adventure

  Hilaire Belloc (1942). “Places”

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• You grow up the day you have the first real laugh at yourself.

  Ethel Barrymore

  Inspirational, Life, Happy Birthday

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• I have died so little today, friend, forgive me.

  Thomas Lux

  Forgive Me, Forgiving, Littles

  Thomas Lux (1976). “The glassblower's breath”, Cleveland State Univ Poetry Center

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• Most people die at the last minute; others twenty years beforehand, some even earlier. They are the wretched of the earth.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Years, People, Lasts

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• Time is painted with a lock before, and bald behind, signifying thereby that we must take time by the forelock; for, when it is once past, there is no recalling it.

  Jonathan Swift

  Past, Locks, Take Time

  Jonathan Swift (1752). “The works of D. Jonathan Swift ...: To which is prefixed, the doctor's life, with remarks on his writings, from the Earl of Orrery and others, not to be found in any former edition of his works.Dublin printed”, p.159

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• 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.

  Epictetus

  Disease And Death, Wish, Needs

  Epictetus (1925). “Epictetus: the Discourses as reported by Arrian, the Manual, and fragments”

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• I live with carpe diem engraved on my heart.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Heart, Engraved, My Heart

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• 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.

  Will Rogers

  Birthday, Travel, Long

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• Oh, now, now, now, the only now, and above all now, and there is no other now but thou now and now is thy prophet.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Prophet, Carpe

  Ernest Hemingway (2002). “For Whom the Bell Tolls”, p.408, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Government, Ice, Omission

  1936 Renomination acceptance speech, Philadelphia, 27 Jun.

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

  Jack Black

  Stupid, People, Certain

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• People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

  Douglas Yates

  Love, Relationship, Breakup

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• Never find your delight in another's misfortune.

  Publilius Syrus

  Advice, Delight, Misfortunes

  "The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave: From the Latin". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 467, 1856.

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• Screamin' 'Carpe Diem!' until I'm a Dead Poet.

  Jay-Z

  Rap, Hip Hop, Poet

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• Mr. Keating: Carpe Diem! Sieze the day!

  Robin Williams

  Carpe

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

  Frank Barron

  Photography, Creativity, Average

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

  Apuleius

  Character, Rich, Enough

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• I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.

  E. B. White

  Time, Nature, Fall

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