Carpe Diem Quotes - Page 11

• The value of moments, when cast up, is immense, if well employed; if thrown away, their loss is irrecoverable.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Loss, Moments, Casts

  "Manners and speech or maxims extracted from Lord Chesterfield's letters to his son". Book by Lord Chesterfield, 1884.

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

  Robert Breault

  Two, Ifs, Two Lives

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

  Robert Breault

  Past, Opportunity, Each Day

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• There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Money, Business

  Following the Equator ch. 56, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

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• The possible's slow fuse is lit by the Imagination.

  Emily Dickinson

  Imagination Creativity, Possibility, Imagination And Dreams

  Emily Dickinson, Cristanne Miller (2016). “Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them”, p.662, Harvard University Press

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• The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

  William Faulkner

  Life, Art, Moving

  1956 Interview in Paris Review, Spring.

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• I totally carpe-d the snot out of this diem!

  Jerry Scott

  Carpe

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• History is a bucket of ashes.

  Samuel Butler

  Buckets, Ashes, Carpe

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• To travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

  James Jeans

  Life, Anticipation, Great Divorce

  Sir James Hopwood Jeans (1928). “Nature”

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• Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• 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.

  Doc Childre

  Choices, How You Feel, Next

  Doc Lew Childre, Bruce Cryer (1998). “Freeze-frame: One Minute Stress Management : a Scientifically Proven Technique for Clear Decision Making and Improved Health”, p.6, HeartMath

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• To-morrow — oh, 'twill never be, If we should live a thousand years! Our time is all to-day, to-day, The same, though changed; and while it flies With still small voice the moments say: "To-day, to-day, be wise, be wise.

  James Montgomery

  Wise, Years, Voice

  James Montgomery, Robert Carruthers (1858). “The Poetical Works of James Montgomery: With a Memoir of the Author...”, p.173

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• Seize the day [Carpe diem]: trust not to the morrow.

  Horace

  Seize The Day, Morrow, Recklessness

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• 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.

  Brittany Murphy

  Mom, Children, Careers

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• The problem with putting off things you've always wanted to do is that eventually you run out of always.

  Robert Breault

  Running, Problem, Wanted

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

  Robert Breault

  Moments, Back In Time, Ifs

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• Some stories are true that never happened.

  Elie Wiesel

  Love, Dream, Writing

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• You should *have* an experience; it shouldn't just *be* an experience.

  Alan Cumming

  Should Have, Should, Carpe

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• Don't think, but look! (PI 66)

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Thinking, Looks, Carpe

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• Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run

  Andrew Marvell

  Running, Sun, Birds Of Prey

  "To His Coy Mistress" l. 41 (1681)

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• My alphabet starts with this letter called yuzz. It s the letter I use to spell yuzz a ma tuzz. You ll be sort of surprised what there is to be found once you go beyond Z and start poking around

  Dr. Seuss

  Ignorance, Use, Letters

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

  Todd Strasser

  More To Life, Carpe

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• If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Heart, Men

  Thomas Merton (2011). “Thoughts In Solitude”, p.30, Macmillan

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• Leave the problems of God to God and karma to karma. Today you're here and nothing you do will change that. Today you are alive and here and honored and blessed with good fortune. Look at this suset, it's beautiful, neh? This sunset exists. Tomorrow does not exist. There is only now. Please look. It is so beautiful and it will never happen ever again, never, not this sunset, never in all infinity. Lose yourself in it, make yourself one with nature and do not worry about karma, yours, mine, or that of the village.

  James Clavell

  Beautiful, Karma, Blessed

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• What I'm not sure about, is if our lives have been so different from the lives of the people we save. We all complete. Maybe none of us really understand what we've lived through, or feel we've had enough time.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  People, Enough Time, Different

  FaceBook post by Kazuo Ishiguro from Feb 13, 2017

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