Famous carpe-diem quotations

   When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a manner that when you die the world cries and you rejoice.
 ~ by Indian Saying

   You only live once; but if you live it right, once is enough.
 ~ by Adam Marshall

Inspirational Sayings, Motivational Quotes, Wise Words, Witty Proverbs
   The future has a way of arriving unannounced.
 ~ by George F. Will

   Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.
 ~ by Art Buchwald

   Why always not yet? Do flowers in spring say not yet?
 ~ by Norman Douglas

   When it comes time to die, make sure all you got to do is die.
 ~ by Author Unknown

   When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.
 ~ by Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human

   As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
 ~ by Henry David Thoreau, Economy, Walden, 1854

   Later never exists.
 ~ by Author Unknown

   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.
 ~ by Sydney Smith

   Life, if well lived, is long enough.
 ~ by Seneca, De Ira

   And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
 ~ by Abraham Lincoln

   We cannot waste time. We can only waste ourselves.
 ~ by George M. Adams

   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.
 ~ by George Bernard Shaw

   I have spent my days stringing and unstringing my instrument, while the song I came to sing remains unsung.
 ~ by Tagore

   The moment when you first wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours. No matter how weary or dreary you may feel, you possess the certainty that, during the day that lies before you, absolutely anything may happen. And the fact that it practically always doesn't, matters not a jot. The possibility is always there.
 ~ by Monica Baldwin

   The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
 ~ by Author Unknown

   Death twitches my ear. Live, he says, I am coming.
 ~ by Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro), Minor Poems, Copa

   Waiting for the fish to bite or waiting for wind to fly a kite. Or waiting around for Friday night or waiting perhaps for their Uncle Jake or a pot to boil or a better break or a string of pearls or a pair of pants or a wig with curls or another chance. Everyone is just waiting.
 ~ by Dr. Seuss

   Every man dies. Not every man really lives.
 ~ by Braveheart

   Those who make the worst use of their time most complain of its brevity.
 ~ by Jean de La Bruyere

   If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?
 ~ by Stephen Levine

   When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
 ~ by Maurice Maeterlinck, Wisdom and Destiny, 1901, translated by Alfred Sutro

   What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour.
 ~ by Ralph Waldo Emerson

   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.
 ~ by Johann von Goethe



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