Quotations About Carpe Diem


Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.  +
Sydney J. Harris

Don't ever save anything for a special occasion.  Being alive is the special occasion. 
Author Unknown

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it.  I want to have lived the width of it as well.  
Diane Ackerman
Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out.  That is what it is for.  Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.  
George Bernard Shaw
Life is a flash of lightning in the dark of night. It is a brief time of tremendous potential. 
B. Alan Wallace
He has spent all his life in letting down empty buckets into empty wells; and he is frittering away his age in trying to draw them up again.  
Sydney Smith
The important thing is not how many years in your life but how much life in your years.
Edward J. Stieglitz
Don't be fooled by the calendar.  There are only as many days in the year as you make use of.
  Charles Richards
There are a million ways to lose a work day, but not even a single way to get one back. 
Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister
To change one's life:  Start immediately.  Do it flamboyantly.  No exceptions.  
William James
Why must conversions always come so late?  Why do people always apologize to corpses?  
David Brin
A man that is young in years may be old in hours, if he has lost no time.  
Francis Bacon, Essays
Begin doing what you want to do now.  We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand, and melting like a snowflake.  
Marie Ray
Every day of our lives we are on the verge of making those slight changes that would make all the difference.  
Mignon McLaughlin
I admire the man who exclaimed, "I have lost a day!" because he had neglected to do any good in the course of it...
Author unknown
The fear of death follows from the fear of life.  A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. 
Mark Twain
Every day you are alive is a special occasion.  Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God. 
 Mary Manin Morrissey
The proper function of man is to live, not to exist.  I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
Jack London
Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time. 
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You don't get to choose how you're going to die.  Or when.  You can only decide how you're going to live.  Now.  
Joan Baez
What a folly to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.  
John Howe
Present your family and friends with their eulogies now - they won't be able to hear how much you love them and appreciate them from the grave.  
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