Carpe Diem Quotes

“It was a very ordinary day, the day I realised that my becoming is my life and my home and that I don't have to do anything but trust the process, trust my story and enjoy the journey. It doesn't really matter who I've become by the finish line, the important things are the changes from this morning to when I fall asleep again, and how they happened, and who they happened with. An hour watching the stars, a coffee in the morning with someone beautiful, intelligent conversations at 5am while sharing the last cigarette. Taking trains to nowhere, walking hand in hand through foreign cities with someone you love. Oceans and poetry.

It was all very ordinary until my identity appeared, until my body and mind became one being. The day I saw the flowers and learned how to turn my daily struggles into the most extraordinary moments. Moments worth writing about. For so long I let my life slip through my fingers, like water.
I'm holding on to it now,
and I'm not letting go.”
― Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps

“From all that I saw,
and everywhere I wandered,
I learned that time cannot be spent,
It only can be squandered.”
― Roman Payne, Rooftop Soliloquy

“Here's the thing. My one piece of advice to you. You have to let yourself be fully present in every moment. Just be awake for it, do you know what I mean? Go all in and wring every last drop out of the experience.”
― Jenny Han, P.S. I Still Love You

“See, my aim is not to survive but to be thrown to the wolfs with adrenaline still pumping in my veins and hear the gods laughing saying ”that was one hell of a youth” and everything I do I do in order to push my senses and levels of natural ecstasy. I want to be so awake that I pass out by exhaustion every night with a smile on my face and no thoughts of tomorrow because today was all I ever could make of it and I am sick and tired of boredom. Bored people slumbering boring words about bored habits and I want to get out.”
― Charlotte Eriksson

“Death is more universal than life. Everyone dies, but not everyone lives.”
― Andrew Sachs

“I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.”
― Georgia O'Keeffe

“Let's burn our masks at midnight
and as flickering flames ascend,
under the witness of star-clouds,
let us vow to reclaim our true selves.
Done with hiding and weary of lying,
we'll reconcile without and within.
Then, like naked squint-eyed newborns,
we'll greet the glorious birth of dawn;
blinking at the blazing, wondrous colors
we somehow failed to notice before.”
― John Mark Green

“If you want to have the time of your life, change how you use the time in your life.”
― Tim Fargo

“Millions of people have lived on the earth, and we don’t know even their names. Accept that simple fact—you are here for only a few days and then you will be gone. These few days are not to be wasted in hypocrisy, in fear. These days have to be rejoiced.”
― Osho, Intimacy: Trusting Oneself and the Other

“It was the happiest moment of my life, though I didn't know it. Had I known, had I cherished this gift, would everything have turned out differently?”
― Orhan Pamuk, The Museum of Innocence

“Kopar goncaları henüz vakit varken bugün
Anlamazsın zaman nasıl kanatlanır, uçar gider
O gonca sana gülücükler saçarken bugün
Gelince yarın, sararır solar, boynunu büker.”
― N.H. Kleinbaum, Dead Poets Society

“Awake! arise! the hour is late!
Angels are knocking at thy door!
They are in haste and cannot wait,
And once departed come no more.
Awake! arise! the athlete's arm
Loses its strength by too much rest;
The fallow land, the untilled farm
Produces only weeds at best.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“It is well-known what an orphan's life is: although he is little and has not yet a man's wisdom, he will follow every trail, try every task.”
― Alexander Afanasyev

“Don't waste today by talking about yesterday until it's finally tomorrow.”
― Tim Fargo

“Someday the Sun will explode, and what about our journalism and poetry then? Well, so what? To hell with our exploding Sun. We have to do what we can do in the time we can act.”
― Bruce Sterling

“Some are saving their right now for later, when tomorrow could be never.”
― Justin K. McFarlane Beau

“Hunt while you can. The weather may change tomorrow.”
― Debra Doyle, The Price of the Stars

“Omnes feriunt, ultima necat.”
― Seneca

“I believe, my lady, that life is the phantom, and love still more fleeting and elusive - here one minute like a sweet scent you can't quite recognize and gone the next. Best enjoy both while you can.”
― Dawn Hammill, Phantom of the Shroppie

“That is a very Earthling question to ask, Mr. Pilgrim. Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is. Have you ever seen bugs trapped in amber?’
‘Yes.’ Billy in fact, had a paperweight in his office which was a blob of polished amber with three ladybugs embedded in it.
‘Well, here we are, Mr. Pilgrim, trapped in the amber of this moment. There is no why.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“When did your flight plan become a holding pattern, always circling happiness, but never allowed to land? Distracted by in-flight movies, drinks, and snacks, until the fuel runs out. Is this really all there is? Is this what you want out of life?”
― John Mark Green

“Jus' live the day. Don' worry yaself.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

“Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)"

Another turning point, a fork stuck in the road
Time grabs you by the wrist, directs you where to go
So make the best of this test, and don't ask why
It's not a question, but a lesson learned in time

It's something unpredictable, but in the end is right,
I hope you had the time of your life.

So take the photographs, and still frames in your mind
Hang it on a shelf in good health and good time
Tattoos and memories and dead skin on trial
For what it's worth, it was worth all the while

It's something unpredictable, but in the end is right,
I hope you had the time of your life.

It's something unpredictable, but in the end is right,
I hope you had the time of your life.

It's something unpredictable, but in the end is right,
I hope you had the time of your life.”
― Green Day

“¿Qué mejor lugar que aquí y qué momento más perfecto que el ahora?”
― Lucía Arca Sancho-Arroyo, Oh My Gothess

“I suppose that I have not many months to live: but of course I know nothing about it. I may add that I am enjoying existence as much as ever, and regret nothing.”
― Thoreau Henry David 1817-1862

“Kamand,
die every day
so you remember
to live.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“Live everyday as if it's your last, boys, and one day in the future when you look back, you'll have lived ten thousand lifetimes.”
― Steven Moore, I Have Lived Today

“Then I wondered why on earth would anyone ever stand in the world as if standing in the cornucopic middle of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon but inside a tiny white-painted rectangle about the size of a single space in a car park, refusing to come out of it, and all around her or him the whole world, beautiful, various, waiting?”
― Ali Smith

“Fatti una bella risata e metti da parte i tuoi piani. Davvero non ne hai bisogno. Ciò che dovrà accadere accadrà e tu hai una scelta: andarci insieme o andarci contro.”
― Osho

“I was sitting, starring into the sky with a tear in my eye thinking: what a beautiful world that the MAKER has allowed us to enjoy for a moment - not to destroy - to enjoy. So let us remove the strife, seize the moments we are blessed with and love this life.”
― Bobby F. Kimbrough, Jr.