Carpe Diem Quotes - Page 5

• There's a time for daring and there's a time for caution, and a wise man understands which is called for.

  Robin Williams

  Wise, Memorable, Learning

  "Fictional character: John Keating". "Dead Poets Society", www.imdb.com. 1989.

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• Seize the day, take hold of it, and make it whatever you want.

  Jessica Sorensen

  Seize The Day, Want, Carpe

  Jessica Sorensen (2013). “The Coincidence of Callie and Kayden”, p.36, Hachette UK

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• Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Happiness, Character, Perfection

  Marcus Aurelius (2006). “Meditations”, p.116, Penguin UK

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• We are all dying, every moment that passes of every day. That is the inescapable truth of this existence. It is a truth that can paralyze us with fear, or one that can energize us with impatience, with the desire to explore and experience, with the hope- nay, the iron-will!- to find a memory in every action. To be alive, under sunshine, or starlight, in weather fair or stormy. To dance with every step, be they through gardens of flowers or through deep snows.

  R. A. Salvatore

  Memories, Flower, Sunshine

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

  Roger Caras

  Fool, Errands, Immortality

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• Law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.

  Tom Schulman

  Dead Poets Society, Engineering, Law

  "Dead Poets Society". www.imdb.com. 1989.

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• But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.

  Robin Williams

  Life, Dead Poets Society, Poetry

  "Fictional character: John Keating". "Dead Poets Society", www.imdb.com. 1989.

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• When you reach the heart of life you shall find beauty in all things, even in the eyes that are blind to beauty.

  Khalil Gibran

  Beauty, Spiritual, Wisdom

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• Aeschylus and Plato are remembered today long after the triumphs of Imperial Athens are gone. Dante outlived the ambitions of thirteenth century Florence. Goethe stands serenely above the politics of Germany, and I am certain that after the dust of centuries has passed over cities, we too will be remembered not for victories or defeats in battle or in politics, but for our contribution to the human spirit.

  John F. Kennedy

  Plato, Ambition, Dust

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• Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this.

  Henry Ford

  Success, Character, Adversity

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• Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.

  Ralph Ellison

  Love, Beauty, Dream

  Ralph Ellison (2010). “Invisible Man”, p.44, Vintage

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

  Pablo Neruda

  Sky, Tree, Able

  Pablo Neruda (1991). “The book of questions”, Copper Canyon Pr

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• You're only human. You live once and life is wonderful, so eat the damned red velvet cupcake.

  Emma Stone

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Beauty

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• Our most consequential human problems will be resolved, not through competition, but collaboration... what we need in education is a learning climate in which students work together. In such an atmosphere, truth emerges as authentic insights are conscientiously exchanged.

  Ernest L. Boyer

  Competition, Atmosphere, Together

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• We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.

  Mark Twain

  Self, People, Trying

  Following the Equator ch. 14, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

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• We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Wise, Wisdom, Smart

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book I, Ch. 25, 1595.

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• To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Travel, Vacation, Self

  Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.249, Transaction Publishers

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• Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.

  Lawrence Block

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

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• There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Inspirational, Travel, Journey

  Charles Dudley Warner (1874). “Baddeck, and that Sort of Thing”, p.16

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• There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.

  Denis Waitley

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• An idea is a feat of association.

  Robert Frost

  Humor, Ideas, Deep Thought

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• Seize today and put as little trust as you can in tomorrow.

  Horace

  Future, Littles, Today

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• 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.

  Mark Van Doren

  People, Limits, Ability

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• Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

  Hector Berlioz

  Life, Music, Death

  "About Time: Einstein's Unfinished Revolution". Book by Paul Davies, 1996.

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• Each of us is the only person who can give the other what each of us wants to have: Peace.

  Ugo Betti

  Giving, Want, Persons

  Ugo Betti (1964). “Struggle Till Dawn”, San Francisco, Chandler

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