Carpe Diem Quotes
When your worst fears are fulfilled when everything you expect is gone, something is still driving us to fix the past or get into the future. When the only thing we should pay attention to is the present. And to the many possibilities of the present.
You`ll cry because time is passing too fast, and you`ll eventually lose someone you love, so take many pictures, laugh too much and love like you`ve never been hurt because every sixty seconds you spend upset is one minute of happiness you`ll never get back.
This is the real secret of life - to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.
It is obviously impossible to live in the present. The brain-computer has no program for it. That we live in the past and in the future, in memories and hopes, in past accomplishments and plans for the future, is based on one of those odd laws of the human psyche.
One of the illusions is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour.
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.
Live each day as if it`s your last`, that was the conventional advice, but really, who had the energy for that? What if it rained or you felt a bit glandy? It just wasn`t practical. Better by far to simply try and be good and courageous and bold and to make a difference. Not change the world exactly, but the bit around you.